Two women have been sentenced to three weeks behind bars for their involvement in a Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) protest in Burnaby last year..Wearing T-Rex costumes, Emily Kelsall and Maya Laframboise, both 24, were arrested for playing badminton in an off-limits area of the TMX construction site in May 2022..However the stunt turned out to be a tyrannosaurus wreck, as both women were charged with criminal contempt for violating a 2018 court injunction against blockades at the work site..The pair pleaded guilty and the BC Supreme Court ordered sentences of 21 days in jail and $1,240 restitution for Laframboise and 28 days jail and $1,240 restitution for Kelsall on Friday..Kelsall received the additional seven days for donning a dinosaur head mask and “defiantly roaring” at the judge at the conclusion of her court appearance, according to the environmental group Protect the Planet, adding that the duo will be transported to the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women.."I'm proud to join the ranks of activists, land defenders, and water protectors who have come before me and served time in jail. TMX must be stopped and it's apparently up to us ordinary T-Rexes and other citizens to make this happen,” Kelsall said in a statement to Protect the Planet.
Two women have been sentenced to three weeks behind bars for their involvement in a Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) protest in Burnaby last year..Wearing T-Rex costumes, Emily Kelsall and Maya Laframboise, both 24, were arrested for playing badminton in an off-limits area of the TMX construction site in May 2022..However the stunt turned out to be a tyrannosaurus wreck, as both women were charged with criminal contempt for violating a 2018 court injunction against blockades at the work site..The pair pleaded guilty and the BC Supreme Court ordered sentences of 21 days in jail and $1,240 restitution for Laframboise and 28 days jail and $1,240 restitution for Kelsall on Friday..Kelsall received the additional seven days for donning a dinosaur head mask and “defiantly roaring” at the judge at the conclusion of her court appearance, according to the environmental group Protect the Planet, adding that the duo will be transported to the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women.."I'm proud to join the ranks of activists, land defenders, and water protectors who have come before me and served time in jail. TMX must be stopped and it's apparently up to us ordinary T-Rexes and other citizens to make this happen,” Kelsall said in a statement to Protect the Planet.
