Anti-Pipeline Protesters March to Drums Through Vancouver

Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver on Tuesday, January 8, to protest the construction of a TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline through the First Nations’ Wet’suwe’ten territory, and in support of people who were arrested the previous day.

The Gitdumt’en people of the Wet’suwe’ten territory, and their supporters, erected a barricade on a forest service road in an attempt to block pipeline construction work. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers crossed and dismantled the barricade and arrested 14 people on January 7, according to reports.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia granted an injunction to Trans Mountain to build the pipeline through the Wet’suwe’ten territory, according to reports. Credit: Dylan Goggs via Storyful