Let’s hope this doesn’t become another summer of blockades
KAMLOOPS — BLOCKADES ARE AN OFT-USED tactic for bringing attention to causes. They haven’t always ended well.
Fortunately, an occupation by an anti-pipeline group at the North Thompson River Provincial Park was brought to a peaceful end last weekend after RCMP made one arrest and warned there would be others.
The park is on the route of the Trans-Mountain pipeline. The group, called the Tiny House Warriors, blocked the entrance. Their approach is creative — they believe that building tiny houses on the pipeline right-of-way will somehow stop it from going ahead.