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Volume 95 - No. 35
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BURNS LAKE
LAKES DISTRICT NEWS
Rumours of mass arrest operation are false, say RCMP The RCMP say they have no intention of taking down the Unist’ot’en camp FLAVIO NIENOW Since June 2015, Unist’ot’en members have physically impeded pipeline proponents such as TransCanada and Chevron from entering their territory. The Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en has set up a protective camp south of Houston and has been filming the interactions between camp members and anyone who attempts to enter their territory without consent. In a recent video posted on You Tube, a TransCanada representative threatens to notify the RCMP if camp members refuse to grant them access through a checkpoint on Chisolm Road. “Since we were denied the ability to use a public road [Chisolm Road] on Aug. 28, 2015, we notified the RCMP,” said Shela Shapiro, Spokesperson for TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink Pipeline project. The situation escalated last week when the Unist’ot’en camp issued a press release claiming camp members were preparing for a “large-scale RCMP mass arrest operation.” Camp spokesperson Freda Huson told The Interior News that a police ...see UNIST’OT’EN
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CARLA LEWIS PHOTO
Unist’ot’en camp say this is not a blockade it is a checkpoint to the Unistote'en territory, aka their homelands. According to TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink Pipeline, the company has made over 90 attempted contacts with the hereditary chief and the Unist’ot’en spokesperson. Four Wet’suwet’en chiefs say Unist’ot’en members do not speak on behalf of their nations.
Coastal GasLink president visits
Involving the RCMP in the Unist’ot’en camp may be inevitable, he says
ANDREA CURRIE President of TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink, Rick Gateman, provided Lakes District News with an update on their liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline project. TransCanada has been selected by Shell Canada Limited and its joint venture partners in the LNG Canada project to develop an approximately
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650-kilometre pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region, near Dawson Creek, B.C., to LNG Canada’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C. It is estimated that around half of the natural gas extracted, around five billion cubic feet a day, would run west along the pipe line and then be shipped by tanker to Asia once the project is complete. The pipeline is planned to be around 670 km long, and 48 inches in diameter and will be submerged underground for most of the route. In terms of how the project will impact the Lakes District, Gateman conceded “there will be times when you will hate us,” count on there being many large trucks and dust and noise. However, Gateman ...see COASTAL GASLINK ▼ P3
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