RCMP said officers were sent to the site near Houston after Coastal GasLink security reported it was under attack.

Violence has erupted at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site in Northern B.C., leaving workers shaken and millions of dollars in damage.

Very early Thursday, just after midnight, Coastal GasLink security called RCMP for help, reporting it was under attack by about 20 people, some wielding axes.

RCMP Chief Supt. Warren Brown, commander for the north district, called the attack a “calculated and organized violent attack that left its victims shaken and a multi-million dollar path of destruction.”

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  • meme_monster [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    How did axes overturn and smash up those excavators? How did these "attackers" escape capture if threatened workers were there to call authorities?

    • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How did axes overturn and smash up those excavators?

      I'm guessing they just drove them into each other n shit

      How did these “attackers” escape capture if threatened workers were there to call authorities?

      looks like it took them a while to get there:

      Upon police attendance at the 41 km mark, the roadway had been blocked with downed trees, tar covered stumps, wire, boards with spikes in them, and fires had been lit throughout the debris. As police worked their way through the debris and traps, several people threw smoke bombs and fire lit sticks at the police, injuring one officer.

      At the 43 km mark, an old school bus blocked the road. No one was located in this area and with the assistance of CGL, the bus was cleared from the road and police continued on.

      pretty well coordinated action, it seems to me. Blowback could be brutal tho

      • BillNyeTheCommieGuy [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        several people threw smoke bombs and fire lit sticks at the police, injuring one officer

        :acab-3: :officer-down:

        • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Honestly, that's one part of this whole thing that I'm very skeptical about - erecting a blockade in the middle of nowhere seems relatively safe and quick but becomes incredibly risky for individual participants if you stick around to... throw sticks? My guess is one cop hurt themself while removing the blockade and they just invented this group staying behind to throw shit at them as they're busy getting through the blockade.

          Wouldn't they pretty easily have apprehended some - or outright shot at - protestors, if there were people sticking around at the first blockade?

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Pipelines typically pass through hundreds of miles of extremely remote territory. If the state were compelled to station guards along every quarter mile of pipe, operations would become much more costly.