Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief told Global News on Friday the nation is “disheartened” to see what happened at the Coastal GasLink worksite this week.“We certainly don’t, as a Wet’suwet’en people, condone this type of action,” said Chief Wihaliy’te, who is also known as Theresa Tait-Day.RCMP in northern British Columbia said a “violent confrontation” between unknown attackers and Coastal GasLink pipeline workers happened early Thursday.Houston RCMP said security officials with the company reported “acts of violence” by masked attackers at their worksite by the Marten Forest Service Road early Thursday morning.“They were dressed in camouflage-type outer winter wear, their faces were disguised, they had masks over their face and they started using extreme violence against the workers,” Chief Supt.
Warren Brown, North District Commander, told CKPG News.Brown said there were torches thrown at and into the beds of pickup trucks, and that axes were used to break windows and damage vehicles with GasLink employees still inside.“The employees were scared away, they were told to leave, which they complied with immediately,” Brown added.He said some machines were stolen and used to damage other vehicles at the construction site.In an update Friday afternoon, Coastal GasLink said approximately nine members of the nightshift workforce were “terrorized” during the incident.Photo and video evidence, including imagery of the masked attackers, have been turned over to the RCMP and are part of their investigation, the company confirmed.They said the attackers disabled lighting and video surveillance at the worksite and heavy equipment on-site was used to cause “significant damage to other heavy equipment and trailers.”The initial damage.