First Nation fights feds for compensation on original Trans Mountain pipeline

The Chief of a First Nation in British Columbia is angry and frustrated at pipeline giant Trans Mountain and the federal government, saying both have failed to fairly compensate his community for all the crude oil that's been pumped beneath their land since the 1950s.

And he's not letting go.

Seven decades ago, court records indicate that the Coldwater Indian Band near Merritt, B.C., signed an agreement with the Government of Canada and with Trans Mountain, the company that built the original pipeline and is now twinning that line.

Global's Kamyar Razavi reports.

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