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Vancouver, November 8 (RHC)-- On Wet’suwet’en territory, the Gidimt’en clan is marking over 40 days since they set up new blockades preventing Coastal GasLink from drilling on Indigenous land to build their pipeline. 

The occupation started in September and halted the company’s efforts to build a key portion of the over 400-mile pipeline that would transport natural gas from Dawson Creek in northeastern British Columbia to the province’s north coastal region of Kitimat. 

Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, a land defender and matriarch of the Gidimt’en clan of Wet’suwet’en Nation, spoke with reporters:  “There is now a clan cabin on the drill pad site where CGL plans to drill under Wedzin Kwa.  In 2010, there were 13 proposed pipeline projects to go through Wet’suwet’en territory.  Investors were forced to pull out of these mega destructive projects through our territory, and Coastal GasLink pipeline is the only one left, from Enbridge, Pacific Trails pipeline, Spectra, Pembina and several others.”