Liam Coyne

Coastal GasLink’s Economic Effect on Wet’suwet’en. Content Warning.

For quite a long time, the Wet’suwet’en Nation, with a special focus on the hereditary chiefs, has been battling in court to protect their territories against a pipeline construction project. Those court battles not only play out over a very long period but also require an extremely high level of money to properly defend. So fighting off a colonization effort that would radically transform the Wet’suwet’en way of life has meant divesting from anything else the nation might have otherwise spent money on.