• Sign up for the Daily Digest E-mail
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
Sign up
  • Home
  • Headlines
    • Latest Headlines
    • Columns
    • Discussions
  • Well Activity Map
  • Property Listings
  • Land Sales
  • M&A Activity
    • M&A Database
    • AER Transfers
  • Markets
  • Rig Counts
    • CAODC Rig Count
    • Baker Hughes Rig Count
    • USA Rig Count
  • Industry Data
    • Canada Well Licences
    • USA Market Data
    • Data Subscription
  • Jobs

BOE Report

Sign up
  • Home
  • Headlines
    • Latest Headlines
    • Columns
    • Discussions
  • Well Activity Map
  • Property Listings
  • Land Sales
  • M&A Activity
    • M&A Database
    • AER Transfers
  • Markets
  • Rig Counts
    • CAODC Rig Count
    • Baker Hughes Rig Count
    • USA Rig Count
  • Industry Data
    • Canada Well Licences
    • USA Market Data
    • Data Subscription
  • Jobs

Rallies planned for protesters arrested while blocking work on B.C. pipeline

January 8, 20198:17 AM The Canadian Press0 Comments

HOUSTON, B.C. – Dozens of rallies are planned in British Columbia, across Canada and as far away as Europe to support pipeline protesters arrested in northwestern B.C.

Fourteen people were taken into custody Monday at a blockade southwest of Houston, B.C., where members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation had set up a camp to control access to a pipeline project across their territory.

An RCMP statement says the arrests came after officers realized a resolution was unlikely, even though they had spoken with camp members about removing the blockade and set up a meeting between hereditary chiefs and the pipeline company.

Police say a temporary exclusion zone is now in place along the remote road and will be consistently re-assessed.

TransCanada subsidiary Coastal GasLink obtained an injunction ordering removal of obstructions in area as preliminary work gets underway on a pipeline carrying natural gas from northeastern B.C. to Kitimat.

A social media message posted early Tuesday on a site supporting the Gidimt’en says “we are now preparing for a protracted struggle.”

LNG Canada announced in October that it was moving ahead with its plans for a $40-billion pipeline and liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat.

Construction on the $6.2-billion, 670 kilometre pipeline connecting gas producers in the Dawson Creek area with the Kitimat export plant, is scheduled to begin this month.

TransCanada says it has signed agreements with all First Nations along the route but demonstrators argue Wet’suwet’en house chiefs, who are hereditary rather than elected, have not given consent for work through their territories.

Companies in this story: (TSX:TRP)

LNG TransCanada

Follow the BOE Report
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
Sign up for the BOE Report Daily Digest E-mail
Latest Headlines
  • Perpetual Energy Inc. completes note exchange and makes PIK interest payment
  • Trudeau, Biden to talk today as death of Keystone XL reverberates in Canada
  • Canada’s rig count at 183
  • Indigenous business coalition leader says Keystone XL denial will hurt communities
  • Alberta premier wants direct compensation from U.S. if Keystone XL pipeline dead

Return to Home
Alberta Gas
CAD/GJ
Market Data by TradingView





    About
    • About BOEReport.com
    • In the News
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    Resources
    • App
    • Widgets
    • Notifications
    • Daily Digest E-mail
    Get In Touch
    • Advertise
    • Post a Job
    • Contribute
    • Contact
    • Report Error
    Featured In
    • CamTrader
    • Rigger Talk
    Data Partner
    • Foxterra
    BOE Network
    © 2021 Grobes Media Inc.