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==== Coastal Gas Link Pipeline ====
{{Further|2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests}}
[[File:RCMP_ERT_member_points_suppressed_rifle_at_unarmed_Wet'suwet'en_protester..png|thumb|RCMP ERT member points suppressed rifle at unarmed Wet'suwet'en protester.]]
On December 14, 2018, a provincial court granted [[TC Energy|TransCanada]] (now TC Energy) an injunction to proceed with construction efforts of their [[Coastal GasLink pipeline|Coastal Gas Link pipeline]] — a 670 km long pipeline that would pass through the Wet’suwet’en Nation. At the time, the [[Unistʼotʼen Camp|Unist’ot’en Camp]] blockade was actively protesting the development. A new checkpoint was set up on land of the [[Gitim'ten|Gitim'ten (Gitimd’en]]),<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-01-03 |title=Call to Action: How to Support the Gitimt’en Camp |url=https://itsgoingdown.org/call-to-action-how-to-support-the-gitimten-camp/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221207014834/https://itsgoingdown.org/call-to-action-how-to-support-the-gitimten-camp/ |archive-date=2022-12-07 |access-date=2025-04-09 |work=It's Going Down |language=en-US}}</ref> one of the five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, to continue blocking access to the construction site.
[[File:UnistotenCamp.jpg|thumb|Unist'ot'en Camp building with banner.]]
On January 7, 2018, the RCMP conducted a militarized raid on the [[Gitim'ten]] checkpoint, arresting 14 people. Investigations revealed that prior to the raid, RCMP commanders had instructed and encouraged violence, "lethal overwatch" (a term to deploy lethal force), and that arrests were necessary to "sterilize the site."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dhillon |first=Jaskiran |last2=Parrish |first2=Will |date=2019-12-20 |title=Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents |access-date=2025-04-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

After the violent evictions, and surveillance recorded of Indigenous land defenders, the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published a letter calling for more information on the ceasing of construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Coastal Gas Link Pipeline due to the related harms caused to the [[Secwépemc]] and [[Wetʼsuwetʼen|Wet’suwet’en]] peoples.<ref>Office of the UN High Commissioner. April 29, 2022. CERD/EWUAP/106th session/2022/MJ/CS/ks. Available at: https://www.aptnnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/INT_CERD_ALE_CAN_9554_E.pdf</ref>

A report by Amnesty International detailed widespread "intimidation and harassment" of Wet’suwet’en people by the RCMP when acting to protect the CoastalGas Link's construction.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Cara McKenna Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Meral Jamal, Local Journalism Initiative |date=2023-12-12 |title=Report details 'intimidation and harassment' of Wet'suwet'en people by RCMP protecting pipeline company |url=https://indiginews.com/features/report-details-intimidation-and-harassment-of-wetsuweten-people-by-rcmp-protecting-pipeline-company |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=IndigiNews |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2023 |title=Removed from our land for defending it: Criminalization, Intimidation and Harassment of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders |url=https://amnesty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/wetsuweten-report.pdf |journal=Amnesty International}}</ref>