METRO VANCOUVER - A crowdfunding campaign to support the legal defence of protesters blocking Kinder Morgan’s survey work on Burnaby Mountain has raised more than $18,000 in just over one day.

The oil and gas giant’s Trans Mountain pipeline subsidiary is seeking an injunction against the protesters, who confronted surveying crews last Wednesday.

The company is also asking for damages and costs over alleged trespass, assault and intimidation by protesters who chased workers away from the area.

A legal defence campaign to support the four protesters named in the suit was set up Saturday on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com, and as of 1 p.m. Monday, 219 people had donated $18,855. The campaign has a goal of $40,000.

A hearing for the proposed injunction is scheduled for Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court.

With files from the Canadian Press