Pipeline Protests
Arrests made following TMX demonstrations in Kamloops
Oct 16, 2020 | 2:45 PM
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KAMLOOPS – Five people have been arrested following a series of demonstrations at Trans Mountain pipeline worksites in the city.
Police were called out at 12:40 pm Thursday afternoon (Oct. 15) to a drill site on Mission Flats Road where demonstrators were blocking a road used by work trucks. Police allege three individuals refused their request to leave. Mounties arrested a 69-year-old man, a 44-year-old woman and a 57-year-old woman who had tied herself to a fence.
RCMP say a second group of demonstrators gathered at another location along the pipeline construction route and refused to leave. That led to the arrest of a 43-year-old woman when she allegedly refused to leave and instead attached herself to a bulldozer.
A 32-year-old woman was spotted destroying survey stakes and was arrested. While she was released without charges, the other four demonstrators were taken to the Kamloops RCMP detachment. They were eventually released on conditions and are scheduled to appear in court in January.
