CBC News · Posted: Feb 14, 2020
Demonstrators rally at the B.C. Legislature to support Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs on Feb. 11, 2019. (Michael McArthur/CBC)
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It's been a week of nationwide protests, blockades and arrests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline planned in traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northwestern British Columbia. At the core of this conflict is a long-running dispute over who has authority over the land the pipeline is supposed to run through. Today on Front Burner, CBC's Duncan McCue offers a close look at the pivotal 1997 court case that set the stage for this dispute: Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia.
It's been a week of nationwide protests, blockades and arrests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline planned in traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northwestern British Columbia. At the core of this conflict is a long-running dispute over who has authority over the land the pipeline is supposed to run through. Today on Front Burner, CBC's Duncan McCue offers a close look at the pivotal 1997 court case that set the stage for this dispute: Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia.
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