The B.C. Supreme Court trial of three Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline opponents including prominent Witsuwit’en leader Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) concluded in Smithers Jan. 12.
Sleydo’, Gitxsan ally Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko, of Ontario’s Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy were convicted of breaching a 2019 Supreme Court injunction by impeding the construction of Coastal GasLink’s pipeline near Houston, B.C. according to CBC News.
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