Members of StopTMX, the group behind a year-long treetop protest of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, have built two tree houses in the woods of Burnaby, B.C., and say they won't move until the entire project is cancelled.
The company is currently working on a section of its oil pipeline expansion project that will bring petroleum products north of the Fraser River through Coquitlam and Burnaby, reaching a series of storage tanks before tunnelling through Burnaby Mountain to a marine terminal on Vancouver’s central harbour.
In order to build the pipeline through the area, it needs to first cut down many trees over 1,300 of them, according to a plan prepared for a Trans Mountain contractor that has been working on the Lower Mainland section of the project.
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Clockwise from top left: SFU professor Tim Takaro, his treehouse protest site along the TMX route in Burnaby and a sign put up warning of an injunction order in effect. Twitter / Facebook / Protect the Planet Stop TMX
A Vancouver-area public health physician is challenging the Trans Mountain pipeline in court after his protest site along the expansion route was demolished so trees could be cut down.
Tim Takaro, a 63-year-old health sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to set aside an injunction order it handed Trans Mountain and its oil pipeline expansion project in 2018. The order has allowed police to arrest or detain anyone obstructing the project’s progress, from Edmonton to Metro Vancouver.
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