Pipeline protesters ask B.C. judge to step aside over alleged bias

Two protesters who were arrested at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project in the summer and are facing jail time are asking the judge in their case to step aside over alleged bias.
Rita Wong, 50, and Mairy Beam, 69, who call themselves “land and water defenders,” gave submissions before B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck in Vancouver Thursday.
They were taken into custody Aug. 24 for allegedly breaching an injunction that the judge had issued in March ordering