Protesters in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs opposed to the LNG pipeline in northern British Columbia block an Ottawa intersection outside the Prime Minister's office Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.
The RCMP’s federal review agency has hired an Indigenous-led law firm amid concerns around delays as it investigates the Community-Industry Response Group, special unit created to police civil disobedience against pipeline expansion in B.C. The RCMP's federal review agency recently hired an Indigenous-led law firm as concerns grow about delays in its probe of the Community-Industry Response Group , a special unit created to police civil disobedience against pipelines in British Columbia.
B.C. Mounties formed C-IRG in 2017 after the massive anti-pipeline resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota, "The complaints speak to systemic, organized violations of charter rights and that's what their experiences are," he said. In 2019, the C-IRG conducted its first raid on Wet'suwet'en territory to dismantle blockades against the $14.5-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from shale fields in northeast B.C. to a liquefaction terminal on the coast.In 2021, a B.C.
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