Some pipeline protesters camped out on a frosty Burnaby Mountain Friday were moved to tears, while others vowed to stay and risk arrest after Kinder Morgan won an injunction to remove their encampment.

The energy giant sought the injunction after protesters staged an around-the-clock blockade in September to stop Kinder Morgan from doing survey work for its proposed $5.8-billion oil pipeline that would run through the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area.

Protest organizer Stephen Collis announced the court decision Friday morning to more than two dozen demonstrators, some of whom have been camping out at the barricade for weeks — including some nights in freezing temperatures.

As she hugged her friend and wept, Burnaby resident Ruth Walmsley -- who has lived in the area for 27 years with her husband and two kids -- said there are just too many environmental risks with the pipeline running through their community.

“We just can’t, we cannot have these pipelines. We have to draw a line,” she said. “I don’t want to be arrested, but I just really feel compelled to take a stand.”

Protesters have until Monday at 4 p.m. to remove their barricade preventing survey work for Trans Mountain’s proposed expansion through the conservation area.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Friday against five activists named in an injunction application sought by Kinder Morgan.

Associate Chief Justice Austin Cullen said failing to grant the injunction would cause irreparable harm to the company through substantial costs and potential revenue losses that are not recoverable.

“It is, of course, important to consider the defendants’ assertions and submissions that what they were engaging in was freedom of expression to address an issue of critical importance,” Cullen said in his written ruling. “I am satisfied that as much as the right of the public dissent must be carefully protected, what is at issue in the present case goes beyond that.”

Kinder Morgan spokesman Scott Stoness said the company will now determine when work will resume.

“We support and encourage people expressing themselves,” he said. “I think the appropriate protest can happen near where we are but without being in the way of our drilling. We don’t object to them expressing their views but we think it should be done in a safe place, in a safe manner. Certainly, if protesters are using bullhorns right next to our workers that’s not safe.”

Stoness said workers will bore two small holes, followed by drilling 250 metres into Burnaby Mountain, to get data that would indicate what kind of tunnelling equipment should be used if the project is approved.

“I don’t think we anticipated that the level of attention would be as large,” he said. “All we’re doing is putting two boreholes into the mountain, which when we’re done will have very little impact on Burnaby Mountain.”

Collis said he believes many of the protesters will engage in civil disobedience on Monday and ignore the injunction.

“People will refuse to move and they will be arrested,” he said. “What you see up here are mostly family residents, retirees, people who have a long history with the work and spent time here and they are really alarmed about this. People don’t want a giant pipeline in their back yard and I don’t blame them.”