RCMP officers moved in today (Seot. 28) to remove the last of the platforms and other items where protesters have been tree sitting to protest the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project for months.
Videos on social media show RCMP tactical teams preparing and then going in to remove tree houses.
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The man was safely removed with the assistance of officers specialized in high-angle rescue, say Burnaby RCMP
Police used a white cherry picker to extract and arrest a tree sitter Wednesday for breaching an existing court- ordered injunction at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion worksite near North Road and Highway 1.
The man was suspended 15 metres in a tree in protest of the pipeline.
RCMP tactical team members started to move in Wednesday morning in an attempt to remove Trans Mountain protesters from trees in the path of the pipeline in Burnaby.
Protesters have been occupying trees in the area for more than a year, but more people set up what have been called “skypods” in the past 10 days on land west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby.
RCMP read out a court injunction barring anyone from blocking the path of pipeline work.
