Vaughn Palmer: NDP efforts fail to clear protest camp peacefully

VICTORIA — After taking great political credit for the $40-billion LNG Canada development, the New Democrats ran for cover Monday as police moved to clear a protest encampment that endangered the project.
The Unist’ot’en encampment, organized by a holdout First Nations clan, sits squarely in the path of the proposed natural gas pipeline that would feed the giant LNG terminal in Kitimat.
On the weekend, cabinet minister Doug Donaldson had made a courtesy call to the Unist&r