A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction.
The roughly two dozen protesters, acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs contesting a British Columbia natural gas pipeline, had begun dismantling the encampment earlier in the evening following discussions with police.
They took downs tents and carried items such as sleeping bags, pots, propane tanks and a wood stove to the edge of a security perimeter established earlier in the day by Longueuil municipal police.
… a day late and a billion short: Coastal GasLink’s final report has been rejected by B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office.Construction in #Wetsuweten territory can’t proceed without this approval, and stands to be delayed by several months.
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