Canada: more arrests as protest against oil pipeline expansion heats up

Two federal MPs among more than 100 people arrested challenging 1,000km line from Alberta’s tar sands to the Pacific coastOne of Romilly Cavanaugh’s first jobs was an environmental engineering position at the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which carries crude and refined oil across western Canada.
Two decades later, Cavanaugh was arrested for blocking the entrance of a facility belonging to her former employer, as part of a wider protest against plans to expand a pipeline snaking from Albe