{"id":4204,"date":"2018-04-07T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ef6f66370c27fb98ac6ec27ff21fbb9a"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:05:38","slug":"chiefs-join-anti-pipeline-protests-in-burnaby-b-c-promise-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/07\/chiefs-join-anti-pipeline-protests-in-burnaby-b-c-promise-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs join anti-pipeline protests in Burnaby, B.C., promise to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURNABY, B.C. &#8212; The leader of the Union of British Columbia Indians Chiefs says he&#8217;ll keep coming back to the site of anti-pipeline protests in Burnaby until he gets arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Chief Stewart Phillip sat with a coffee cup in his hands between fellow union executive members, Chief Judy Wilson and Chief Bob Chamberlin, at the gates of Kinder Morgan&#8217;s worksite on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip, who has been arrested four other times as he fought for Aboriginal rights, says he believes it&#8217;s his responsibility to help stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Activist and author Naomi Klein also joined the protesters, saying they are sending a message not to the government but to investors that there&#8217;s real opposition to the fossil fuel industry in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Kinder Morgan&#8217;s Trans Mountain project is set to twin an existing pipeline, tripling the flow of oil flowing to the B.C. coast from Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP say they have arrested about 200 people demonstrating around the Trans Mountain facilities since mid-March, and while most face charges for civil contempt, officers have also made arrests for mischief, obstruction and assault of a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>(Companies in this story: TSX:KML)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURNABY, B.C. &mdash; The leader of the Union of British Columbia Indians Chiefs says he&rsquo;ll keep coming back to the site of anti-pipeline protests in Burnaby until he gets arrested. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip sat with a coffee cup in his hands between fellow union executive members, Chief Judy Wilson and Chief Bob Chamberlin, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}