Developers of a hotly contested $4.5-billion natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia are rejecting alternative routes amid nationwide protests that have crippled the Canadian rail system and triggered a political crisis.
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who are battling plans by developer TC Energy to build the 416-mile Coastal GasLink pipeline through their tribal territory, have been pushing an alternative, the so-called McDonnell Lake route that they contend would steer clear of sensitive cultural and archeological sites.