Protesters at Burnaby Mountain setting up a station to educate the crowd

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BURNABY (NEWS1130) – Demonstrators on Burnaby Mountain are trying to get more organized as the protest over Kinder Morgan’s surveying work continues to ramp up.

Some people who were at the Clayoquot Sound protests 21 years ago are looking to educate others who don’t have the same kind of experience.

Ben West with ForestEthics has been at the protest. He tells us some of the people who’d been at Clayoquot have said back then, it was helpful to have a group explaining what was going on to the people arriving each morning.

“Making sure people understand their rights, understand the implications of what they might be getting involved in and trying to help make sure people are safe.”

A makeshift information booth will be at the foot of Centennial Drive, down the road from where the protest is happening and people are being arrested.

A woman in her mid-70s is the latest protester to be taken into custody.

Cindy Leong with our news partner City says Della Glendinning crossed into the injunction zone this morning.

“About a half hour later they walked her out, very gently, to an RCMP vehicle. They took her down the hill and they’re going to [recommend to] charge her with contempt of a court order. She was smiling.”

Over 70 people have been arrested since Thursday.

Kinder Morgan has had workers there since Friday evening, doing surveying work into the feasibility of running the Trans Mountain pipeline under the mountain.

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