Nancy Furness and Bob Willson show off bottles of ocean water they're delivering to the constituency office of Port Coquitlam MP Ron McKinnon as a symbol of what they say is at risk from the expansion of the Transmountain pipeline to deliver raw bitumen from the Alberta tarsands to the Westridge shipping terminal in North Burnaby.
Anti-pipeline protesters visited the offices of 44 Members of Parliament across Canada on Friday as part of their national action day to defend the water. The protests were held a day after United Nations' World Water Day that focuses global attention on the importance of water. They were also the latest in a series of actions to disrupt and delay construction work on the pipeline project, including protests at Kinder Morgan's operations in Burnaby and blockades at the Westridge shipping terminal.
Members of Parliament Kennedy Stewart and Elizabeth May were also arrested on Friday for defying a court injunction prohibiting protests against the project within five metre of the company's front gate in Burnaby.
