Coastal GasLink is in hot water for work conducted along its gas pipeline route south of Houston.
BC’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) found that the company failed to provide adequate notice to a Wet’suwet’en trapline holder in the Morice River area before clearing activities began.
The Unist’ot’en have said the January bulldozing of the trapline destroyed traps and represented an attack on their healing centre.
The Environmental Assessment Office issued a stop work order this week, but later clarified that it was not an order to “cease all activity within the trapline area” and doesn’t restrict all construction activities in the trapline area.
The office says CGL must consider what activities may adversely impact the use of the trapline and cease those activities.
The Unist’ot’en say crews have continued to use bulldozers and excavators within meters of active traps and have continued to block access to traplines in the area.
Coastal GasLink says it acknowledges the non-compliance finding on three certificate conditions, including the trapline work, and is reviewing the EAO order as it figures out its next steps.
