Business group offers $100,000 reward over attack on Coastal GasLink site
SURREY, B.C. — The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C. is offering a $100,000 reward for information about an attack on Coastal GasLink employees at a northern work site in February.
RCMP say a group of about 20 people armed with axes attacked security guards and smashed vehicle windows at the site near Houston, wrecking heavy machinery and throwing smoke bombs at officers arriving on the scene.
Association president Chris Gardner says the reward will go to anyone providing information leading to arrests and charges against the “thugs and criminals” behind the attack, which RCMP say caused millions of dollars in damage.
Anonymous tips are being taken through the Crime Stoppers tip lines and will be passed on to police.