New First Nation Checkpoints Answer Court Injunction to Protect TransCanada Pipeline Completion

Indigenous Nation Blocks TransCanada Pipeline with New Checkpoint

by TRNN

December 23, 2018

When TransCanada attempts to deliver a Canadian court injunction against a decade-old Wet’suwet’en checkpoint, they run into a second checkpoint instead.

The Wet’suwet’en people have never signed treaties with Canada or sold their lands, a fact confirmed by Canada’s Supreme Court in 1997 in a landmark case known as Delgamuukw.