HOUSTON, B. C.—Indigenous artifacts found at the construction site of a contentious pipeline project were likely not in their original location, says British Columbia’s energy regulator. “The soils upon which the artifacts were found would not typically contain any such cultural artifacts and this was likely not their original location,” the commission said. The Unist’ot’en clan said Monday the artifacts were recovered from a site that “had been heavily disturbed” by Coastal GasLink bulldozers. “Wet’suwet’en cultural artifacts cannot be properly identified and analyzed without the input of Wet’suwet’en people,” it said. The Coastal GasLink pipeline would transport natural gas from northeastern B.C.

Source: thestar March 11, 2019 20:48 UTC