WATCH: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau blamed the Conservative government Wednesday for not doing enough to avoid confusion and opposition against Kinder Morgan’s test drilling in Burnaby.
Protesters on Burnaby Mountain are showing no signs of backing down in their fight against Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion. An 84-year-old woman became the 84th person to be arrested for violating an RCMP-enforced injunction on Tuesday.
Barbara Grant crossed into the injunction zone and was immediately taken into custody.
Grant lives in Burnaby and says she is crossing the line as a statement.
“I was born in Vancouver, I grew up in Vancouver, I love this place,” she says. “I can’t tolerate the idea of even a single oil spill.”
Over the weekend, an 11-year-old girl was also willing to risk arrest to challenge surveying work. Kate Fink-Jensen, 11, and her mother were among a group of protesters who volunteered to cross police lines Sunday morning.
WATCH: As protesters refuse to give up their fight against a proposed pipeline, Global BC‘s Jeremy Hunka gives us our first look at exactly what survey crews are doing in the area.
It’s been over a week since Kinder Morgan was granted an injunction to remove the protesters from the mountain. A lawyer for the company argued in court that the activists have prevented field studies to build the Trans Mountain pipeline in the area, which were approved by the National Energy Board.
But protesters say they are exercising their right for free speech.
Despite round-the-clock presence of protesters on the mountain, Kinder Morgan brought in its drilling equipment last Friday and began core sampling.
The company says the samples already taken from the mountain show conditions are favourable for its proposed expansion.
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