The B.C. Prosecution Service has proceeded to press criminal contempt charges against four more protesters who allegedly defied an injunction passed in 2018 that protects the construction of a liquefied natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.
The ruling by Crown prosecutor Tyler Bauman at the B.C. Supreme Court on July 7 brought the total number of people facing criminal contempt charges for their role in blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline to 19.
The Crown had prosecuted 15 others on June 1. Crown lawyer Trevor Shaw told Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church at the time that prosecutors needed another four weeks to decide whether to charge 10 additional protesters with criminal contempt related to the blockades and actions last fall opposing the pipeline, reported the CBC….