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Pipeline protesters camping on Burnaby Mountain say they’re gearing up for a legal battle after being slapped with an eviction and bylaw notice Wednesday and given three days to leave.

The City of Burnaby ordered the occupants of the “Camp Cloud” protest site at Underhill Avenue and Shellmont Street to immediately remove all structures, trailers and vehicles, as well as put out fires, tear down a shower and leash their dogs. Officials warned the protesters to cease their “unauthorized occupation and use” of city lands within 72 hours or face city action to remove the camp.

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The protest camp started last November with a single trailer parked at Kinder Morgan‘s Westridge Marine Terminal on Burrard Inlet, but was moved in December to the street outside the tank farm’s gates, where it has grown into dozens of tents, trailers and buildings, including a two-level wood structure.

Kwitsel Tatel, court monitor at the camp, dismissed the city order as “illegitimate” Wednesday and said protesters would stand their ground to protect water. They oppose the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which would twin an existing pipeline and increase oil-tanker-in-Burrard-Inlet-traffic nearly seven-fold. The federal government announced in May that it planned to buy the pipeline, expansion project and tank farm for $4.5 billion.