The B.C. government has ordered Coastal GasLink to stop work on a section of pipeline near Prince George after officials found sediment-laden water being “pumped into an area that ran into tributaries of the Anzac River.”
In an email to CBC News, B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office said there were “negative impacts” to a fish-bearing stream, a matter it takes “very seriously.”
High levels of sediment in the water can be deadly to fish and their eggs and destructive to fish habitat.
This incident is the latest in an ongoing pattern of CGL environmental violations.
Many of the violations involve the pollution of sensitive waterways and wetlands through erosion and sediment as CGL builds a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.
CGL’s construction project crosses
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