The Manufacturing of Dissent: When violence came to the pipeline – Resource Works

February 17, 2026

A new investigative series examines how the Coastal GasLink protests became a cautionary tale about who gets to decide Indigenous economic futures

I remember the morning the video dropped.

February 22, 2022. RCMP footage, released days after the fact, showing the aftermath of what had happened on February 17: a coordinated attack on a remote Coastal GasLink drill site in northern British Columbia. Fifteen to twenty masked figures in snow camouflage, armed with axes and flare guns, had terrorized workers and caused $20 million in damage. They’d blocked escape routes with felled trees, fires, and a school bus positioned across the forest service road.

The school bus haunted me.

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