The Financial Post reports in its Thursday edition that protesters conducting an around-the-clock vigil against Enbridge rival Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline in Metro Vancouver say they are facing an uphill battle ahead of an injunction hearing Wednesday. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post reports that the group is called the Caretakers. It claims public support is growing which will let the protesters continue their fight. Protest spokesman Stephen Collis says the group has already raised $40,000 from 600 separate donors for legal costs. He says the group has the support from 100 environmental and labour organizations. Mr. Collis, a Simon Fraser University professor, was among a noisy crowd who rallied outside the British Columbia Supreme Court ahead of the hearing aimed at stopping protesters from blocking Trans Mountain survey work on Burnaby Mountain. Speakers were met with loud cheers from placard-waving supporters as they pronounced the pipeline to be against the public interest. The court action by Trans Mountain names five defendants in a $5.6-million lawsuit claiming trespass, assault and intimidation by activists. About nine people have mounted a 24-hour protest in the conservation area.