Canada police begin clearing Wet’suwet’en land defender camps

Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation have set up camps and checkpoints along the forestry road near the town of Houston, BC, over 1,000km (621 miles) northwest of Vancouver, to try to stop the pipeline from being built on their traditional territories.

Wet’suwet’en leaders say they never consented to the 670km (416-mile) pipeline, which will cut across vast swaths of their land as it transports natural gas from northeast BC to a terminal near the town of Kitimat, where it will be prepared for export overseas.