Lawyers for Trans Mountain are planning to ask a British Columbia judge to amend an order allowing protesters within five meters of the Burnaby Terminal and the Westridge Marine Terminal work sites, after a request for a 50-meter exclusion zone for was turned down, The Canadian Press reported June 1.
Trans Mountain, in its notice of civil claim, said that protesters have found ways to maximize the disruption they cause at the work sites while avoiding arrest, even after breaching the injunction order, the report said. "Blockade participants are structuring their tactics to avoid the spirit and intent of the injunction order," the notice said. "The amendments to the injunction order Trans Mountain seeks are necessary to prevent blockade participants from engaging in further unlawful activity that contravenes the injunction order and interferes with Trans Mountain's work, operations and legal rights."
The developers for Kinder Morgan Inc.'s C$7.4 billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project also said that the protesters are planning to ramp up the disruption starting June 1.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently said his finance minister will meet with Kinder Morgan officials to discuss financial support for troubled Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
