The Reeve of the Township of Tyendinaga is calling for a peaceful resolution and completion to the demonstrations in Tyendinaga Township.
Quinte News spoke Tuesday morning to Brad Roach, the CAO/Clerk/Treasurer of the Township of Tyendinaga. He told Quinte News that Depot Road, which is the site of the Highway 49 demonstration adjacent to the CN tracks, is actually an unmaintained road in Tyendinaga Township. McApline Road, which is on the north side of the CN tracks, also adjacent to Highway 49, is where OPP have been set up for more than a week.
Last week the demonstration site made national news, after protesters threw tree limbs onto the tracks, started a fire with gasoline almost underneath a train, and hurled debris at a train engine. The main demonstration site on Wyman Road, which is also in Tyendinaga Township, saw 10 people arrested last Monday. The camp there was disassembled, and demonstrators (call themselves Land Defenders) moved further south, where they have set up a large tent, along with fires, supplies, food, and drink.
The demonstrators (Land Defenders) say they never gave up the land to the crown, and Tyendinaga Township land actually belongs to them. The sites were erected in early February, to support some of the Wet’suwet’en Herediatry Chiefs, who are against a pipeline carrying liquid natural gas through their land.
During Tyendinaga Township Council Monday night, Reeve Rick Phillips put forward a motion, asking for the demonstration locations to come to an end, and the appropriate sides get together and resolve the issue.
On Monday evening, the following resolution was put to other municipalities to support.
Whereas the dispute regarding the Coastal Gaslink Project in British Columbia is continuing, and whereas the dispute has directly affected the Township of Tyendinaga and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, and whereas the resolution of the situation lies in discussions and negotiations with the appropriate parties, the Corporation of the Township of Tyendinaga calls on those parties to work together to find a successful and peaceful resolution of the pipeline matter as quickly as possible. Finally, the township urges all municipalities and municipal organizations across the country, to support the parties involved in their search for a resolution of this critically important matter.
