{"id":1966,"date":"2014-11-23T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2014-11-23T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T14:55:18","slug":"kinder-morgan-pipeline-protest-sees-more-people-arrested-after-crossing-police-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1966","title":{"rendered":"Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2014\/11\/22\/kinder-morgan-pipeline-protests-burnaby-mountain_n_6205038.html\">Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">VANCOUVER &#8211; About a dozen more people have been arrested at a pipeline protest in a conservation area in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The protesters were taken away Saturday after crossing a police line on Burnaby Mountain, where crews have been conducting survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Arrests began at the site Thursday, four days after a court deadline passed for activists to leave the survey site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Kinder Morgan, the company that&#8217;s proposing the expansion, says drilling has begun at one of two, 250-metre-deep holes and that work trucks, crews and their equipment will continue to move onto the mountain throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">If approved, the expanded pipeline could ship almost 900,000 barrels a day of crude from Alberta to the B.C. coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Opponents argue the increased quantity of oil being transported would increase the risk of a devastating spill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line. 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