On 12 January 2024, indigenous land defenders Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jayohcee Jocko, were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for breaking a court order forbidding them from blocking construction sites of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, a 670-kilometre pipeline planned to carry natural gas across northern British Columbia to a terminal in Kitimat.

Molly Wickham, is land and water protector and a Wing Chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. She has been the public face of a high-profile indigenous land rights movement, currently working as the spokesperson for Gidimt’en Access Checkpoint, a reoccupation site of the Wet'suwet'en nation that controls access to the territory of the Cas Yikh house, as a way to defend their land, water and its ecosystem from the negative effects of the construction of a gas pipeline, demanding the free, prior and informed consent of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in the framework of extractive projects that aim to be activated in their land.