Five arrested after swarming LNG pipeline site in Northern B-C

HOUSTON,B-C- The R-C-M-P say five people have been arrested at two camps located near the disputed Coastal GasLink pipeline project near Houston B-C.

Mounties say officers responded to a complaint Sunday night from Coastal GasLink security, who reported that a worker had been swarmed by a group of people wearing masks.

T-C Energy, the owner of the 670-kilometre pipeline project, says workers deserve a safe environment without fear of such dangerous acts.

The Gidimt’en Checkpoint, whose members oppose the pipeline’s construction through Wet’suwet’en territory, say the people arrested yesterday were mostly Indigenous women and the search warrant for theft had no clear relation to their village site.