Violent overnight attack at Coastal GasLink site leaves workers shaken, millions in damage

By Cheryl Chan

 

RCMP said officers were sent to the site near Houston after Coastal GasLink security reported it was under attack.

Very early Thursday, just after midnight, Coastal GasLink security called RCMP for help, reporting it was under attack by about 20 people, some wielding axes.

RCMP Chief Supt. Warren Brown, commander for the north district, called the attack a “calculated and organized violent attack that left its victims shaken and a multi-million dollar path of destruction.”

Coastal GasLink said in a statement the attackers surrounded some of its workers in a “highly planned” and “unprovoked” assault near the Morice River drill pad site off the forest service road.

 

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