Councillor urges shutdown of Trans Mountain construction in Kamloops due to COVID-19 concerns
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops councillor is calling on federal and provincial officials to call a halt to Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline expansion construction within city limits.
Denis Walsh says expansion activities are scheduled to begin soon for TMX’s ‘Kamloops Urban Special Project’, which would lay new pipe beneath the Thompson River.
Walsh doesn’t think the project, which will require hundreds of construction workers, is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is unusual in the fact that these workers… we were told last year, 300 to 500 workers, transient workers that would have to come into our city and find accommodation,” Walsh told CFJC Today Thursday (Apr. 2). “So it’s unlike a work camp.”