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EXCERPT:
MORICE RIVER, B. C.—Armed police clad in camouflage made arrests Monday afternoon upon breaching two checkpoints erected by Wet’suwet’en nation members, who have been trying to stop the LNG company Coastal GasLink from entering their traditional territories in northern British Columbia.
After an intense standoff with police around 2:30 p.m. local time, police breached the barrier at one of the checkpoints, set up by the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation.
“What are your grandchildren going to think?” yelled nation members as police advanced.
Officers removed two protesters who had bound themselves to a fence, and a number of people were arrested in the raid. Other members of the Wet’suwet’en escaped the chaos, retreating to a second checkpoint farther up the Morice West forestry service road, about 44 kilometres outside the town of Houston.
Coastal GasLink is developing a pipeline through the area to deliver natural gas to the proposed LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C. Coastal GasLink is a subsidiary of TransCanada PipeLines Ltd.
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