Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain
Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain
2024
Edited by Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Drobnies and Tim Bray
Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain tells the story of the resistance to the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion. The TMX project involved drilling under the mountain to an expanded Westridge shipping terminal on Burrard Inlet and doubling the number of bitumen storage tanks on the mountain鈥檚 southern flank. The book is an anthology of testimonies and personal narratives of 25 courageous individuals who were arrested and many jailed for standing in the pathway of this tar sands pipeline. Their motivations were several, but included a concern for the safety and well-being of the SFU Burnaby Mountain community. Among the contributors are SFU professors Tim Takaro and Robert Hackett as well as student Zain Haq. The book also includes a brief history of the project and the resistance against it, and an essay on civil disobedience by UBC professor David Tindall. The book release is October 29, 2024 and is now available for pre-order on this publisher webpage 鈥�
鈥淲hile the TMX project may sadly be complete, the movement to block its construction will be remembered as historic. This book provides an important record of what was a transformative struggle, both for the hundreds bravely arrested and for the thousands more for whom this project lays bare the lengths to which the fossil fuel industry and its political defenders will go to force this deadly infrastructure down our throats.鈥�
鈥� Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, team lead with the Climate Emergency Unit, and Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies, SFU