Mountain Protectors

Mountain Protectors A collective of protectors monitoring TransMountain’s construction activities at Burnaby Terminal

Link to our website:
http://mountainprotectors.org/

It is with a very heart to inform you all of the passing of our dear friend and comrade, Elan Gibson. Please join us in ...
09/02/2025

It is with a very heart to inform you all of the passing of our dear friend and comrade, Elan Gibson. Please join us in her celebration of life and the pipe ceremony this coming Saturday, September 6, at 12:30pm-3pm. Ceremony starts at 1pm.

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05/30/2025

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This Saturday! Please help us spread the word. All proceeds to the Mountain Protectors and the Longhouse Church! Still a...
05/27/2025

This Saturday! Please help us spread the word. All proceeds to the Mountain Protectors and the Longhouse Church! Still a few spots to sell with us, so please email 🔥

Yard sale coming up! Come grab stuff for cheap. All proceeds to the Longhouse Church and the Mountain Protectors.If you’...
05/09/2025

Yard sale coming up! Come grab stuff for cheap. All proceeds to the Longhouse Church and the Mountain Protectors.

If you’re interested in selling anything, please send a message to us here or [email protected]

TMX hasn’t been operating at full capacity due to price differentials. Forecast over the next 3 years have reduced the q...
05/04/2025

TMX hasn’t been operating at full capacity due to price differentials. Forecast over the next 3 years have reduced the quantity of oil to flow through the system since some companies are unwilling to pay higher tolls, charged due to the project’s costs ballooning higher than expected.

However in March, the pipeline moved 790,000 barrels of oil per day, and TMX CEO Mark Maki said it will run close to capacity around 2027 or 2028. Full capacity is 890,000 barrels per day. Pre-TMX capacity was about 300,000 bpd.

About half of this crude oil goes to the US, the other half is now being sent to Asia, much of it to China along with Korea, Japan, India and Brunei.

Now TMC looking to sell the project, but not before they can improve their image and up the price.

Slide 1: CBC news
Slide 2: Mark Maki, CEO of TMC (CBC news)
Slide 3: tanker traffic can be seen more clearly from Kits beach (taken late March)

Please come out and support the trees at X̱wáýx̱way
03/16/2025

Please come out and support the trees at X̱wáýx̱way

Mutual Aid needed!!! We’re sharing this GoFundMe in solidarity with Secwepemc Matriarch April Thomas, Nlaka’pamux Land D...
03/01/2025

Mutual Aid needed!!! We’re sharing this GoFundMe in solidarity with Secwepemc Matriarch April Thomas, Nlaka’pamux Land Defender Billie Pierre, and environmental engineer Romilly Cavanaugh, who are appealing their criminal contempt convictions with sentences ranging from 28 days to 32 days.

Please also come out to support at 9am, Monday, March 3 at the BC Supreme Court, 800 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC. (Gathering at corner of Hornby and Nelson)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Indigenous-matriarchs-appeal

Today is the day Stacy should have been released if remission were granted (since he has served two thirds of his senten...
03/01/2025

Today is the day Stacy should have been released if remission were granted (since he has served two thirds of his sentence, the point at which others incarcerated for opposing TMX pipeline expansion were released).

However, he remains in Fraser Regional Correctional Centre (FRCC).

We wanted to have this practice of denying remission judicially reviewed, but that did not work out. We are looking into other ways to challenge this unjust practice that will negatively impact not just Stacy but all land defenders who get incarcerated after him. This, however, will take time to work its way through the courts.

For now, if you can, please take a few minutes to write a letter to the warden of FRCC (in the spirit of diplomacy)

Richard Lacroix, Warden
Fraser Regional Correctional Centre
PO Box 1500
Maple Ridge, B.C.
V2X 7G3

Please find a link to the sample letter in our bio or below:

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/send-a-letter-for-stacy-release/

🦖🦖🦖 Mayor Mike Hurley and Burnaby City Councillors are going the way of the dinosaurs! 🦕🦕🦕 In a secret meeting, they sig...
01/29/2025

🦖🦖🦖 Mayor Mike Hurley and Burnaby City Councillors are going the way of the dinosaurs! 🦕🦕🦕

In a secret meeting, they signed a Sweetheart Deal (a.k.a. “Community Contribution Agreement”) with Trans Mountain Corporation (TMC), an operator of the Trans Mountain pipelines and one of Canada’s major polluters transporting diluted bitumen from the tar sands.

The agreement bars Burnaby City staff and consultants from communicating directly or indirectly any “fact or opinion or otherwise” that negatively affects TMC (Schedule C). This includes past communications. Public announcements related to TMC must also be pre-approved.

This gag order goes against truth, transparency, accountability, and climate justice.

We are calling them back to the right path. Today they’re a Gagorderus (read gag-order-us), but they don’t have to be one tomorrow! 🦖🦕🔥☄️

Updated poster! See you this Tuesday at 4:30pm!!! Join us for speeches from traditional Elder, Burnaby residents, fire s...
01/25/2025

Updated poster! See you this Tuesday at 4:30pm!!! Join us for speeches from traditional Elder, Burnaby residents, fire scientist, nurses and doctors for the environment, Anakbayan BC, and more!

Please mask up to protect our community!

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We count on city officials to serve our interests and protect public safety, especially in these times of polycrisis and unprecedented fossil fuel-induced climate emergencies. Trans Mountain Corporation has violated the public trust throughout the construction and operation of TMX, continuing to prioritize profit over life and burdening communities with climate change risk and impacts from fires and floods.

The Community Contribution Agreement between Trans Mountain and the City of Burnaby signed on September 27, 2024, is a violation of climate justice as it seeks to wipe Trans Mountain clean from any negative “fact or opinion or otherwise” that directly or indirectly affects them. Historical amnesia is a dangerous weapon, and we cannot afford our children and grandchildren to inherit it as we are forced to enter the point of no return on climate change. We invite everyone to gather at the Burnaby City Hall to demand climate justice, transparency, and accountability.

Let us hear the whole truth about the risk and how the city and community together can respond.

Photo of 2023 Kamloops Fire by neillockhart

We count on city officials to serve our interests and protect public safety, especially in these times of polycrisis and...
01/19/2025

We count on city officials to serve our interests and protect public safety, especially in these times of polycrisis and unprecedented fossil fuel-induced climate emergencies. Trans Mountain Corporation has violated the public trust throughout the construction and operation of TMX, continuing to prioritize profit over life and burdening communities with climate change risk and impacts from fires and floods.

The Community Contribution Agreement between Trans Mountain and the City of Burnaby signed on September 27, 2024, is a violation of climate justice as it seeks to wipe Trans Mountain clean from any negative “fact or opinion or otherwise” that directly or indirectly affects them. Historical amnesia is a dangerous weapon, and we cannot afford our children and grandchildren to inherit it as we are forced to enter the point of no return on climate change. We invite everyone to gather at the Burnaby City Hall to demand climate justice, transparency, and accountability. Let us hear the whole truth about the risk and how the city and community together can respond.

Gather at 4:30pm
Rally at 5pm

Photo of 2023 Kamloops Fire by neillockhart

Gitchi Makwa Stacy Gallagher is going into jail on Jan 17 to serve the remaining 63 days of his 90-day sentence for his ...
01/17/2025

Gitchi Makwa Stacy Gallagher is going into jail on Jan 17 to serve the remaining 63 days of his 90-day sentence for his conscientious and ceremonial opposition to the TransMountain pipeline expansion. He sought to appeal the sentence at the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), which denied the appeal on Jan 16.

BC Corrections is denying Gallagher remission, even though previous prisoners incarcerated for conscientious objection to the expansion of the TransMountain pipeline were eligible for remission, which means being released after serving two-thirds of your sentence. Once again, Indigenous land defenders are being punished more harshly than non-Indigenous defenders in BC’s systemically racist carceral system.

Letters of support can be sent to Stacy Gallagher at:
North Fraser Pretrial Centre
1451 Kingsway Avenue
Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 1S2

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2595 Franklin St
Vancouver, BC
V5K 1X5

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