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.

Shaylynn Sampson is a land and water protector from the Lax Gibuu, Wilp Spookw of the Gitxsan Nation. They continue to fight against colonial occupation of Gitxsan Lax'yip (territory) as well as further destruction from industrial projects on the Yintah.