Masked protesters allegedly steal Kinder Morgan equipment on Burnaby Mountain

A Kinder Morgan vehicle with its windows smashed, Burnaby Mountain, March 23, 2015. Photo: Metro News.

By Emily Jackson, Metro Vancouver, March 23, 2015

The battle between protesters and Kinder Morgan flared up on Monday after masked men allegedly broke into a vehicle on Burnaby Mountain to steal surveying equipment.

“I understand that a window was smashed on one of the contractors vehicles and some surveying equipment was taken by a masked man who we believe has previously interfered with the survey work we’ve been undertaking,” Trans Mountain Pipeline spokeswoman Lizette Parsons Bell said.

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.

Burnaby tries to force police costs from Kinder Morgan

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

By James Keller, The Canadian Press, Dec 18, 2014

A Vancouver-area city is asking the National Energy Board to hand Kinder Morgan a bill that could be worth more than $2 million for policing and cleanup costs after pipeline work was targeted by protesters last month.

Environmental activists set up a makeshift encampment in a conservation area on Burnaby Mountain, east of Vancouver, in an attempt to block crews from conducting drilling and survey work related to its proposal to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Kinder Morgan stops drilling, begins moving equipment from Burnaby Mountain

Protesters march up Burnaby Mountain, Nov 25, 2014.

By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, VANCOUVER SUN, November 28, 2014

VANCOUVER — Kinder Morgan has stopped drilling on Burnaby Mountain and will move out its equipment beginning today, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

An application by Kinder Morgan to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from two drilling sites for its proposed oil pipeline was rejected by the B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday. It means the site must be cleared of excavation work by Dec. 1., the date when the injunction is set to expire.

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.

Solidarity with Burnaby Mountain Defenders from Mi’kmaq Warriors

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.