Image Credit: Miranda Dick / Facebook

By Dave Barry

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Protester arrested at Trans Mountain construction site

Sep 3, 2020 | 3:41 PM

KAMLOOPS – A woman has been arrested for violating a B.C. Supreme Court injunction by chaining herself to a gate at the Trans Mountain pipeline worksite near the Kamloops airport.

Police were alerted to the situation just after 6:00 a.m. RCMP say security staff asked the woman to leave however, she refused to unchain herself from the gate and leave.

Armed with the injunction, RCMP officers arrived at the scene later in the morning. Police say officers read the 32-year-old woman the injunction and eventually arrested her.

In a Facebook post shared with CFJC Today, the protester claims to be a member of the Secwepemc First Nation and states she is taking a stand to protect salmon for future generations and stop “all this destruction to Mother Earth.”

VIDEO: (Video Credit: Facebook / Miranda Dick)

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