STEWART -- It now appears that two branches of the BC government are being impelled toward some type of collision that would create an appearance of confusion benefiting only those seeking to thwart the pipeline project
A British Columbia civil servant has a second job – as a director at the Unist'ot'en camp originally created to block any pipeline that might be planned for a North West corridor. Her government employer is monitoring the situation, just weeks after $400,000 in public funding was announced for the camp. Veteran journalist Stewart Muir assembled a number of facts about the situation. REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION: An agency of the British Columbia government has issued a news release attempting to explain its financial support for a pipeline protest camp where one of its current employees is also now employed. The Unist'ot'en site in a remote location near Smithers is the eye of the storm in a heavily publicized dispute involving contested claims about which members of the Wet’suwet'en Nation have the right to negotiate with governments and industry. Although 20 First Nations are supportive of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline, a number o...