Mounties say four more anti-pipeline protesters, including three seniors, were arrested outside a Kinder Morgan work site in Burnaby, B.C. Friday.
According to police, the demonstrators were taken into custody in the 7000 block of Bayview Drive after allegedly breaching a court-ordered injunction designed to stop pipeline opponents from impeding access to the Trans Mountain facility.
A sign warning of an underground petroleum pipeline is seen on a fence at Kinder Morgan's facility where work is being conducted in preparation for the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, in Burnaby, B.C.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Karen Savage, an award-winning investigative reporter, did not expect to be arrested as she covered Energy Transfer Partners’ controversial construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline through Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, a river swamp bigger than the Florida Everglades.
“We were on land that the pipeline company doesn’t even claim to have,” she said, adding that she had permission in writing from the property owner to be there. “I didn’t think there was really any risk at all.”
Kinder Morgan stated in a letter to the Neskonlith Indian Band that it would be seeking provincial authorizations related to a number of “activities” within the traditional territory of the band.
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AUGUST 20, 2018 02:07 PM
The Union of BC Indian Chiefs wants the provincial government to remain steadfast in its opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by denying any of the company’s requests to restart construction.
