Kinder Morgan protesters found guilty of criminal contempt of court

The first trial of protesters accused of violating a court injunction at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project ended Monday with guilty verdicts for the nine accused.
The protesters, arrested March 17 at the Burnaby work site, had pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt of court at the outset of their trial last week in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
During the trial, prosecutors showed video evidence of the protesters — some of whom had strapped themselves to a