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However, Stubbs said RCMP would also be prepared to make arrests using commensurate force based on the actions of the opposed Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in the area. He said the RCMP would be filming the event with body cameras, hand-held cameras and from the air.

All sides involved in the standoff in northern B.C. expected RCMP action after talks between the province and the opposed Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs broke down this week after just two days of what had initially been scheduled as seven days of meetings.

“We hope that the paramount need for safety stays the top priority for all parties,” said B.C. Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Scott Fraser in a release issued late Tuesday night.

“We and the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs made a committed effort to find a peaceful resolution to the situation,” Fraser said, adding the two sides did not reach an agreement but the province remains open to further discussion.

Similarly, Coastal GasLink said in a statement it was disappointed that discussions did not result in a solution “that would prevent the enforcement of the interlocutory injunction order.”

The company and opposed First Nations leaders had previously come to an access agreement for the area, but that was scrapped last month as tensions escalated in the region.

Coastal GasLink — a venture jointly owned by Calgary-based TC Energy Corp., Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) and New York private equity giant KKR & Co. LP — won an expanded injunction order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia in December.