Police lift roadblocks as tensions ease at B.C. gas pipeline site

SMITHERS — The RCMP lifted an exclusion zone on Friday that had cut off public access to a forest service road in northern B.C. at the site of a confrontation this week between Mounties and opponents of a natural gas pipeline.
Police say the public and media can travel on the road in the Wet’suwet’en First Nation territory but the RCMP will be patrolling it to ensure everyone’s safety.
Earlier Friday, a convoy of work trucks passed through the police roadblock heading to