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.

Falling oil prices pose another delay for B.C. pipelines

Protest in Comox, BC, against Enbridge pipeline, 2012.

Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail, Jan. 18, 2015

Energy economists say that a prolonged slump in oil prices will further slow two proposed pipelines already hamstrung by court challenges and community opposition in British Columbia.

Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver has maintained that “the strategic need is still there” for both the Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain pipelines to go through the province. But the slumping price of oil has caused enough “market instability,” as Mr. Oliver put it, to prompt Ottawa to postpone its budget to at least April.

Analysts say that kind of instability hasn’t yet changed the economic imperative for Canada’s oil industry to open up its first major conduit to Pacific markets, but most agree that a months-long downturn in oil prices could slow investment in oil sands expansion, which in turn could decrease the supply of oil available to any future pipelines.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘This is going to be a war,’ says Burnaby mayor as 26 pipeline protesters arrested

One of several assaults carried out by RCMP while enforcing injunction order for Kinder Morgan, Nov 20, 2014

Note: two additional corporate media reports on the RCMP operation on Burnaby Mountain to remove the anti-pipeline protest camp on Nov 20, 2014.

By Dan Fumano, The Province, Nov 20, 2014

As pipeline protesters clashed with police on Burnaby Mountain — leading to 26 arrests — Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said his government was ready for a “war” in the courts.

“This is going to be a war, and it’s going to be one that carries on for a number of years,” Corrigan said of the legal challenges his city has mounted in various levels of court, in attempts to stop Kinder Morgan’s work on Burnaby Mountain.