Canada: how a pipeline engineer got arrested in anti-pipeline protests

Two federal MPs among more than 100 people arrested challenging 1,000km line

One 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 Alberta's oil sands to the Pacific coast.