Kamloops hosting international conference on mining impacts
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KAMLOOPS — Nearly 200 delegates from Canada and the United States have descended on Kamloops for a conference discussing the impact mining activities have on local communities.
Entitled Uniting for Healthy Lands, Waters and Future Generations, organizers note it comes four years after the breach at Mount Polley, the biggest mining spill in Canadian history.
Attendees will also be learning about the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemec efforts to protect the Pipsell Cultural Site from mining and to secure the Nation’s Aboriginal title rights.
Discussions will take place over the next two days at Thompson Rivers University and include over 40 speakers, experts, scientists, Indigenous, labour, environmental, and grassroot organizations and will include the latest information on the development of mining impacts, regulations and policies in the U.S. and Canada.
