A B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced five protesters Monday who pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court for ignoring a court order forbidding them from blocking access to a controversial northern B.C. pipeline.
Coastal GasLink says more than 500 pipeline workers are stranded after a Wet'suwet'en clan blockaded access to two work camps in a remote part of northern B.C. along a 6.6 billion dollar gas pipeline route.
Demonstrations in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s hereditary chiefs against a natural gas pipeline have spread across the country. Canada’s indigenous people are divided over the project.
Work continues on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern B.C. while Wet'suwet'en hereditary leadership are still fighting the project, calling for a stop work order from the province.
