Three people arrested at Burnaby pipeline demonstration: RCMP
Posted October 31, 2022 7:52 pm.
Last Updated October 31, 2022 8:01 pm.
Three demonstrators were arrested Monday morning by Burnaby RCMP after police said the protestors were impeding work at a nearby Trans Mountain work site.
Two women and one man were arrested for criminal contempt at around 8:30 after the three refused to leave the area when police arrived and asked them to do so, according to a Burnaby RCMP release.
The demonstration was related to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX), and the three protestors were camped out in tents beside Stoney Creek, according to police.
Police say the demonstrators arrested were released on-site to appear in court at a later date.
“These water protectors had been observing and monitoring work on the TMX pipeline, concerned about its effects on the salmon run in the adjacent creek,” says Protect the Planet.
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Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta was removed from the site by RCMP on a roller chair.
Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta was wheeled off-site by two police officers for demonstrations related to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. (Protect the Planet image)
Kaufman-Lacusta has been arrested several times in opposing TMX in Burnaby: twice in 2021, once in 2018, and twice in 2014. On two of those occasions, she was released without charge, according to Protect the Planet.
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will triple the existing line’s capacity, which goes from Edmonton to Burnaby, to 890,000 barrels a day of bitumen, lighter crudes, and refined fuels, such as gasoline.
In 2018, the federal government bought the project, for $4.5 billion.
