Peace Brigades International PBI Canada report that Bechtel, the U.S. Virginia-based engineering transnational corporation, defeated by Indigenous resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the historic Water War 1999/2000, has been named to oversee and manage the execution of the PRGT fracked gas pipeline on Canada’s Gitxsan and Gitanyow territories. As the Gitxsan and Gitanyow demand that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police C-IRG/CRU not trespass on their territory and inflict the violence seen against Wet’suwet’en land defenders and those at Fairy Creek, we will continue to follow this.
