By Adam Donnelly

Kinder Morgan protesters take to the riverbank at ‘Picnics not Pipelines’

Apr 23, 2018 | 5:21 PM

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.”

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Included in the speakers were former Green Party Candidate for Kamloops North-Thompson Dan Hines, as well as Union of BC Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Philip. Lead organizer of the event, Jeffrey McNeil Seymour says while the issue of the pipeline expansion has been divisive, he’s hoping to keep the discourse civil as the process continues.

by Adam Donnelly

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Kinder Morgan protesters take to the riverbank at ‘Picnics not Pipelines’

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