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.”
This twitter thread might be more important than the article: https://twitter.com/kainagata/status/1494467416855703554?s=21
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.