Kinder Morgan protesters take to the riverbank at ‘Picnics not Pipelines’
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KAMLOOPS — On Sunday, over a hundred people gathered at Mission Flats Park to take in music, guest speakers and enjoy the beauty of the beach near the Thompson River at the “Picnics not Pipelines” event.
The event was meant to help mobilize greater resistance to the pipeline upstream from the Lower Mainland and was held at the park because it’s the site where the Kinder Morgan pipeline crosses the Thompson River.
“This is just an opportunity for us to gather… to express our collective solidarity in our resistance to tar sands expansion,” lead organizer Jeffery McNeil-Seymour explained. “Also a very critical issue, in that there’s about to be a moratorium announced from the [Dept of Fisheries and Oceans] on the collapsed salmon stocks here in the Thompson River.”
