Protesters move to allow a vehicle to leave the Trans Mountain terminal in Burnaby. – Lauren Boothby
Protests resumed at Burnaby’s Trans Mountain terminal Thursday for the first time since Kinder Morgan announced work on the pipeline would stop.
The protest resulted in three arrests for violating the injunction. But when trucks needed to leave and enter the facility, protesters moved out of the way.
Following a procession from the soccer field near Forest Grove Park, past the Tsleil-Waututh watch house, protesters blocked the entrance to the terminal, standing within the five-metre zone covered by Kinder Morgan’s injunction. Three artists were arrested just before 11 a.m., receiving a civil charge for standing in the injunction zone.
But when police asked protesters to move so workers could leave the facility, they complied.
Following a procession from the soccer field near Forest Grove Park, past the Tsleil-Waututh watch house, protesters blocked the entrance to the terminal, standing within the five-metre zone covered by Kinder Morgan’s injunction. Three artists were arrested just before 11 a.m., receiving a civil charge for standing in the injunction zone.
But when police asked protesters to move so workers could leave the facility, they complied.
He did not answer a question about why he decided to move, and he was called away by organizers of the demonstration.
The organizers appeared to have advised protesters to move when asked by police.
"I know it was really difficult to watch the work they are doing continuing to be done," Greenpeace activist Mary Lovell told protesters after the trucks passed.
"The only reason why I was hoping for people to stay on the side is not because I don't want people to take action, but because I didn't feel that people understood that they may get arrested without understanding that they were going to.”
Protect the Inlet has protests scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
