With construction on the $9.3-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion expected to ramp up soon, RCMP enforced an injunction on Thursday morning, allowing Burnaby to begin dismantling a protest camp outside a pipeline terminal.
Just before 6 a.m., the RCMP raided the encampment, known as Camp Cloud, removing 11 people from the protest site, subsequently arresting five of them. Those arrested were released later, said the police.
“For safety reasons, we can’t have people there, so there have been arrests of people that have refused to leave,” RCMP Cpl. Daniela Panesar said.
The city then moved in and began dismantling the camp, which had grown since November to include a two-storey wooden structure, a cabin, an outdoor shower, more than a dozen tents, and vehicles and trailers.
The city expected it could take all day to remove the camp. “I think there was sufficient notice given to the occupants of Camp Cloud,” the City of Burnaby acting manager, Dipak Dattani, said of the timing of the action.
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Cassidy Olivier & Gordon Hoekstra – Vancouver Sun – August 16, 2018.
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