The increasingly intense anti-pipeline demonstrations at Burnaby Mountain are making news once again.
Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May was arrested Friday morning while protesting against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
BREAKING: MP @ElizabethMay has just been arrested. #cdnpoli #StopKM pic.twitter.com/aJxOgWPqnn
— Greenpeace Canada (@GreenpeaceCA) March 23, 2018
The arrest was made after May entered a court-imposed "protest-free" zone at the Kinder Morgan worksite.
NDP Member of Parliament Kennedy Stewart was also arrested after entering a court-imposed protest-free zone on the property.
BREAKING: @ElizabethMay has just been arrested for protesting the injustice of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
— Green Party Canada (@CanadianGreens) March 23, 2018
Add your name to stand with her: https://t.co/DVahr9HlKB#DefendTheWater #FirstNations #Solidarity pic.twitter.com/cGUDbbuJCj
The injunction prohibits activists from getting within five metres of Kinder Morgan's two terminal sites on Burnaby Mountain, where work related to the company's pipeline expansion is underway.
Nearly 100 people have been arrested in March as protestors have ramped up demonstrations against the federally approved pipeline expansion.
Protest organizers have said they're planning daily demonstrations until at least Monday, the deadline given to Kinder Morgan for clearing trees in the area before birds begin nesting.
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