The RCMP, complete with helicopters and a tactical force of over one hundred officers, some of them in camoflage with automatic rifles, moved in over several days and has arrested dozens of occupants. Major protests have gone on across Canada and around the world. We’ll try to keep up with some audio from the Unist’ot’en camp and from local protests of the RCMP violence.
All the fuss of course is about the Coastal Gas Link construction project of a big new pipeline running from the fracking gas fields in the peace and North East BC, to the planned liquification and shipping port in Kitimat.
BC investigative journalist Ben Parfitt has been looking into BC’s gas fracking industry for years. Many of his devastating reports have been published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC branch at policynote.ca. We talk to him to get the technical low-down on fracking and the impacts of fracking on BC.
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