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Pipeline Protesters Arrested - KamloopsMounties Make Arrests at Trans Mountain Worksite in Kamloops Oct 15, 2020 On Oct. 15, members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline walked across Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and onto the Trans Mountain site. There, at least one protester, a woman, sat on an excavator and called for others opposed to the pipeline expansion project to help stop the work being done.When Trans Mountain employees told protesters they were violating a B.C. Supreme Court injunction prohibiting the obstruction of access to Trans Mountain's worksites and that they must leave, a protester responded by saying they would stay. Kamloops Mounties were called and, at about 2:30 p.m., the arrests — one of which was aired live on Facebook — took place. The arrest video is one in a series of Facebook Live videos posted to the page “We, the Secwépemc: Virtual Unity Camp.”... “The Secwépemc have said no to this pipeline over and over. There’s never [been] an appropriate time or place given to us to say no, so we have to do the things we did today to show we say no to this pipeline to protect our water, our salmon and our future generations,” Azadi said. The protesters have said they represent the will of the Secwépemc people and contend the First Nations band councils that do support the pipeline project have been bought off to do so.The Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation has a $3-million mutual benefits agreement with Trans Mountain.
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Msg # | Subject | Author | Recs | Date Posted |
293021 | Re: Pipeline Protesters Arrested - Kamloops | ScottMc | 1 | 10/16/2020 4:13:51 PM |