Trains are slowly continuing to roll through Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory today as government officials meet with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in British Columbia.
Mohawks who are standing in solidarity with those in Wet’suwet’en who oppose a pipeline being built through first nations territory.
As of 2 p.m., the Tyendinaga Fire Department was called to McCauley Road near the tracks for a large rubbish fire called in by the OPP.
That is the location of Camp B, near Hwy. 49.
At Wyman Road, Mohawk members there are building a village behind the cement barricades put in place by the OPP.
Tyendinaga Township Reeve Rick Phillips called for a resolution to the Coastal GasLink crisis.
He says both Tyendinaga Township and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte are doing the best they can to respond to events along the rail corridor including fire calls.
Phillips says he and Chief Maracle have been in regular contact and they both want this matter resolved peacefully and as quickly as possible.
He called on the federal government, BC government and the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to make the pipeline issues their number one priority.
The full release from Phillips can be found below.
