The trial of three Coastal GasLink pipeline opponents for allegedly breaching a 2019 B.C. Supreme Court injunction against impeding progress of the pipeline project has begun in Smithers.
On Monday, Sleydo’ (also known as Molly Wickham), one of the primary Wet’suwet’en leaders of the resistance against the project, along with two co-defendants, pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt in the Supreme Court at Smithers.
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