One existing tank and the surrounding utilities will be removed to accommodate the new layout. Temporary roadways are currently under construction at the Burnaby Terminal, where the site is being prepared for 14 new storage tanks. Work at Burnaby Terminal and Westridge Marine Terminal began in August 2019. ARHCA revives Don’t RIP Through Construction Zones safety campaignĬonstruction is currently happening across Alberta and British Columbia for the Expansion Project.The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line is now fully online.Backwoods Energy Services begins oil well rehabilitation in Alberta.The new pipeline will carry heavier oils with the capability for transporting light crude oils. The existing pipeline will carry refined products, synthetic crude oils and light crude oils with the capability for heavy crude oils. Along with new storage terminals, there will be three new berths built at Westridge Marine Terminal. Instead, the Crown is using reports from the company’s security personnel and surveillance footage as evidence.The Expansion Project will construct about 980 km of new pipeline, 193 km of reactivated pipeline, 12 new pump stations, with 19 new tanks added to existing storage terminals in Burnaby, Sumas and Edmonton. Leyden and Gallagher are the first protesters to be charged with violating the injunction for alleged incidents for which they were not arrested. “The Crown would say that the time has come that these two individuals should be restrained from a wider area around the two terminal properties where … the vast majority of protests or arrests have occurred over the last year and a half,” Rattan said. 29) but said he will try to secure an earlier release for his client.Ĭrown lawyer Monte Rattan argued the 500-metre buffer zone was warranted because both Leyden and Gallagher have already been convicted of criminal contempt of court for breaching the injunction, which only prohibits protesters from coming within five metres of Trans Mountain properties. Fay said Leyden could remain in jail at least until his next court date (Jan. Leyden later refused to sign the order and was taken into custody. Leyden requested the same protocol on the grounds signing the paper would conflict with his duties under Indigenous law, but Fitzpatrick denied him the exemption, citing the fact he had signed a similar document during his previous court proceedings. She said he could instead have the release read to him at the court’s registry. The judge did, however, agree to exempt Gallagher from having to sign a document to affirm his agreement with the conditions of his release. “We’ve always been here we’re not the new kids on the block,” he said, referring to Indigenous people. Gallagher responded to the judge’s decision, saying it was another example of a “settler or colonialist” dictating where an Indigenous person may go and what his responsibilities are. Gallagher’s lawyer, Sarah Rauch, requested that he be granted the same exception but the judge refused because, she said, he did not have the same defined role as Leyden and did not demonstrate that he needed to attend to the Watch House. 29), to obey the terms of the injunction and to stay at least 500 metres away from Trans Mountain’s tank farm, Westridge marine terminal or any other facility clearly marked as belonging to the pipeline company or its affiliates.įitzpatrick allowed one exception to the no-go zone, allowing Leyden to continue attending his duties as the First Nations elder at the Watch House, a wooden structure built on the pipeline’s right-of-way.ĭavid Fay, Leyden’s lawyer, said his client had been assigned that role by Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish elders and the restrictions proposed by the Crown would have prevented him from carrying out his duties.
Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick issued the warrants but said the men were to be released immediately if they agree to three conditions: a promise to appear at their court date (Jan. Jim Leyden and Stacy Gallagher appeared in court in Vancouver Thursday morning, where Crown prosecutors sought arrest warrants for the two men accused of breaching an injunction by standing in the driveway of the pipeline’s Burnaby Mountain tank farm. Supreme Court judge has ordered two Indigenous men to stay at least 500 metres away from Trans Mountain’s pipeline facilities in Burnaby.
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