The Crown will file criminal contempt charges against 15 protesters who violated an injunction protecting the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern British Columbia.
The Crown will decide within four weeks whether it will also file criminal charges against 10 other activists arrested last fall.
He added that two of the 27 activists arrested would not face criminal charges.
The 670-kilometer pipeline will link the northeast of the province to Kitimat, on the coast, where a gas liquefaction plant and a port are being built.
Protests against the pipeline erupted in 2019 and 2020 followed by the arrest of many people.
Opposition to the pipeline among hereditary Wet’suwet’en leaders sparked solidarity rallies and railroad blockades across Canada last year.
The elected Leader and First Country Council of Wet’suwet’en and others in the area approved the Coastal GasLink project. Since then, a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the federal and provincial governments and the hereditary leaders of the Wet’suwet’en.
There is information from Jason Proctor
Source: Radio-Canada
