Kinder Morgan drops civil suit against Burnaby Mountain anti-pipeline protesters

Another protester arrested and carried away; in total some 26 people were arrested on Nov 20, 2014.

The Province/The Canadian Press, Jan 30, 2015

Kinder Morgan says it will not continue court action against protesters who demonstrated against the proposed expansion of a pipeline while survey crews drilled on Burnaby Mountain.

The company has filed a discontinuance of its B.C. Supreme Court civil lawsuit against five people who protested at the site last November and December.

Lessons We Keep Learning: Reflections on the Burnaby Mountain Pipeline Opposition

Pacifists and New Age spiritualists hold a group hug against Kinder Morgan… it didn’t work.

by Megan Craig, Vancouver Media Coop, Dec 21, 2014

For many weeks local residents occupied a small piece of unceded Coast Salish Territory (the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area) in hopes of preventing the building of another oil pipeline that would connect the Alberta tar sands with tankers in Vancouver’s harbor and triple the amount of bitumen already transported. So far, there has been a broad range of people acting to oppose this project. Municipal government, left leaning academics, liberals, Indigenous warriors and elders, migrant organizers, grassroots activists, and anarchists, have all taken a stand against the pipeline.

Kinder Morgan loses bid to extend injunction on Burnaby Mountain

Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs leads crowd of around 100 to drill site as he voluntary gets arrested, Nov 27, 2014.

Judge throws out civil contempt charges against those arrested for breaking the injunction

CBC News, Nov 27, 2014

An application by Kinder Morgan to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from two drilling sites on Burnaby Mountain was rejected by the B.C. Supreme Court Thursday, meaning the site must be cleared of excavation work by Dec. 1.

In denying the company’s request to extend the injunction to Dec. 12, the judge also ruled that all civil contempt charges against those arrested so far have been thrown out due to errors in the injunction.

It won’t end here: Anti-pipeline protesters vow to remain on Burnaby Mountain as long as Kinder Morgan is there

By Kelly Sinoski and Mike Hager, The Province/Postmedia News, November 24, 2014

In 74 years, the biggest black mark Della Glendenning had against her was a library fine. But on Monday, she was arrested and jailed after she deliberately stepped over police lines on Burnaby Mountain to protest Kinder Morgan’s exploratory drilling on site.

Glendenning, supported by about two dozen protesters who marched with her to the drilling site on Centennial Way, marked the 76th protester to be taken into custody since the protests began on Burnaby Mountain last Thursday. Most have been arrested under civil contempt charges for violation of a court injunction that allows Kinder Morgan to drill under the mountain.

RCMP co-opt sacred fire on Burnaby Mountain

RCMP moving the sacred fire on Burnaby Mountain, Nov 21, 2014.Original title: RCMP help keep sacred fire burning on Burnaby Mountain

Note: Cops love co-opting Native culture and spirituality as part of their repression of Indigenous resistance, and they often find willing and naive accomplices from within Native communities to do this…

Officers working with elders to bring in firewood

By Mike Hager and TIFFANY CRAWFORD, Vancouver Sun November 24, 2014

As tempers on Burnaby Mountain flare between protesters and duty-bound Mounties, the mutual respect behind the scenes is evident between three First Nations RCMP officers and several elders who are helping maintain a sacred fire within the zone ruled off-limits by a court injunction. The fire is considered sacred to aboriginal people because it symbolizes the fight to save the land.

RCMP ‘Tactical Troop’ on Burnaby Mountain

Two assaults carried out by RCMP tactical troop while enforcing injunction order for Kinder Morgan, Nov 20, 2014

by Warrior Publications, Nov 23, 2014

Since November 20, 2014, there have been scores of police on Burnaby Mountain, enforcing a court injunction prohibiting people from interfering with Kinder Morgan’s drilling of bore holes.  As of Nov 23, there have been over 60 arrests.  While the majority of these have been symbolic “voluntary arrests,” some have been the result of aggressive police actions during their crowd control activities.

Arrests made on Burnaby Mountain for fourth straight day, over 60 in total

Awkward moment for cops on Burnaby Mountain as protester holds mirror in front of them, Nov 23, 2014.  Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa, Vancouver Observer.

By Global BC/The Canadian Press, Nov 23, 2014

BURNABY, B.C. – At least a dozen protesters were taken into custody Sunday on a mountain near Vancouver as a demonstrations continued against a controversial pipeline project.

Dozens of people have been arrested since Thursday, when the RCMP began enforcing a court injunction ordering protesters to clear a pair of work sites on Burnaby Mountain, where Kinder Morgan is conducting drilling and survey work related to the proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline.

Ten more arrested as anti-pipeline protesters continue civil disobedience on Burnaby Mountain

About 47 people arrested this week protesting Kinder Morgan crew’s work

By Tiffany Crawford, Tara Carman and Mike Hager, Vancouver Sun, Nov 22, 2014
METRO VANCOUVER — At least 10 more people have been arrested this morning after crossing the police line, as anti-pipeline protesters continue to rally on Burnaby Mountain. The arrests were peacful and without too much force.Meanwhile, the sound of drilling by Kinder Morgan crews at two sites on Saturday morning muffled the crackling of the sacred fire, which police on Friday moved rather than extinguished so aboriginal elders could keep the blaze burning. The fire is significant to aboriginal people because it symbolizes the fight to save the land.

First Nations join pipeline protest in B.C. amid more arrests

RCMP stand in guard of Kinder Morgan contractor’s heavy equipment, Nov 21, 2014.

The Globe and Mail/The Canadian Press, Friday, Nov. 21 2014

First Nations vowed to stand in unity with protesters as police kept up arrests Friday in a Metro Vancouver conservation area where crews resumed survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Shortly after activists announced they would do whatever it takes to stymie the project, a group began marching up Burnaby Mountain in the pouring rain.

More arrests quickly followed.

More protesters arrested today as Kinder Morgan crews resume work on Burnaby Mountain

RCMP occupy the site of the protest camp on Burnaby Mountain as Kinder Morgan contractors prepare for drilling, Nov 21, 2014.

By Tiffany Crawford and Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun, November 21, 2014

METRO VANCOUVER – At least six more protesters have been arrested on Burnaby Mountain today, including Simon Fraser science professor and protest organizer Lynne Quarmby.

Quarmby was named as a defendant in the Kinder Morgan injunction to have the protesters removed, along with Mia Nissen, Adam Gold and fellow SFU professor Stephen Collis, and Alan Dutton, who leads the Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion.