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BIG FISH: A four-year-old Chum salmon draws the admiration of Grey, 4, and Tucker, 7, grandchildren of renowned fish protector and B.C. Rivers Day founder Mark Angelo. Scott Ducharme, Fisheries and Oceans Canada community advisor for the Salmon Enhancement Project (holding the fish), was at the Cariboo Dam in Burnaby Lake Park Tuesday for a photo op with Angelo and his grandkids. Tucker participated in his first salmon release four years ago, according to Angelo. “This could well be one of those Chum,” he said. “Just as the fish have gotten bigger, so too have the kids.” PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Priest feels ‘targeted’ by civil contempt conviction Kelvin Gawley
kgawley@burnabynow.com
An Anglican priest and her parishioner are among more than 200 anti-pipeline activists arrested in Burnaby this year, but on Wednesday they became the first found guilty of civil contempt of court in the ongoing Trans Mountain pipeline saga. On May 25, Laurel Dykstra and
Linda Hutchings chained themselves to a tree on the property of Trans Mountain’s Burnaby Mountain tank farm with bicycle U-locks around their necks. Dykstra told the NOW they did so as an act of prayer to protest the company’s clearing of trees. This summer, however, the two women were relieved when criminal contempt of court charges were dropped by the Crown, Dyk-
stra said. Dozens of other protesters have been convicted of that charge in recent months, with sentencing ratcheting up into longer and longer jail terms. But Trans Mountain sought the civil charge, which was handed down by Judge Kenneth Affleck in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Wednesday. “It felt pretty personal.We’ve been singled out from amongst a
group of other people who have had charges dropped,” Dykstra said. “It feels targeted and it feels like an intimidation tactic where the public participation of folks and dissent are being threatened financially.” Trans Mountain’s lawyer, Matthew Huys, argued in court that Dykstra and Hutchings should be convicted because they knowingly crossed into Trans Moun-
tain’s property and violated the injunction, which bars protesters from coming within five metres of the property line. “Everyone who breaches a court order faces consequences, environmental protest or not,” Huys said. Addressing the court, Hutchings told Affleck she did not contest of the facts laid out by Trans Mountain’s lawyer. Continued on page 10