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APRIL 30, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 52
Vandalism at MoE office
More eyes in the sky possible ANDREA KLASSEN
STAFF REPORTER
MOUNT POLLEY TARGET OF TAG AND MULTIPLE PROTESTS
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Can’t get enough of the City of Kamloops’ Overlanders Bridge cam? More viewing options may be on the way. Public works director Jen Fretz said the city is considering two additional webcam feeds to allow the public to follow the progress of road construction or plan their commutes for the day. The city has one camera positioned above the bridge and the Ministry of Transportation has announced plans for a view of the Halston Avenue and Highway 5 intersection. Fretz said the next two cameras could be placed at the intersections of Fortune Drive and Leigh Road in North Kamloops and Columbia Street and Third Avenue downtown, where a road widening project will start this summer. Fretz said the additional cameras would cost about $5,000 each, though the first bridge camera was much more expensive — $30,000 — because the city had to install fibre-optic cable, which is available at both proposed locations.
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Black Pines resident Penny Powers stands in the fertile orchard that is in jeopardy of being destroyed if Trans Mountain Pipeline is successful in its application to twin its pipeline.
WILL PIPELINE KILL HARVEST? DALE BASS
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P
enny Powers spends a lot of her time in her garden. When she’s not outside planting, she might be in the kitchen canning, preserving or freezing foods she has grown. Powers could be grinding up corn from her garden that will be used for bread or polenta. She might be using some of the winter grains she’s grown to make pie crusts that will be filled with preserves from her dozens of fruit trees.
The retired Thompson Rivers University professor said she and husband Charles Hays are essentially self-sufficient, by consuming their own produce or using it to barter with others like them. Grocery store lists are infrequent and might include items like spices, tea or coffee — things the two of them can’t grow. It’s an idyllic life in Black Pines, just 20 kilometres north of The Dunes at Kamloops Golf Course — but Powers is worried about its future. Late last year, she attended a meeting in the area hosted by Kinder Morgan, the company that wants to expand its Trans
Mountain Pipeline through B.C. “There was a map on the wall and I walked up and looked at it and, oh my god, that was a surprise I didn’t want to see,� Powers said. “I said, ‘Chuck, Chuck, this thing is going right through my orchard,’� Powers recounted. Although there are two Kinder Morgan pipelines in the ground on the east side of Westsyde Road — one of them unused — Powers said the company indicated it’s not interested in digging up that area and replacing the 24-inch line not carrying oil with the 36-inch pipeline it wants to build. See OIL LEAK, A6
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Ministry of Environment offices in Sahali were vandalized overnight Tuesday with anti-Mount Polley messages. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush said the damage to the building on Dalhousie Drive was reported to police when staff arrived at the workplace. The message on the front doors in red spray paint read “shut down Imperial Metals.� A silicon-type substance was also injected into locks. Imperial Metals operates Mount Polley in the Caribou. In August 2014, the mine’s tailings dam breached, sending millions of litres of contaminated tailings into Hazeltine Creek and Polley and Quesnel lakes. Bush said she’s not aware of related vandalism at other government offices. However, the timing of the vandalism in Kamloops coincided with a national day of action on Wednesday in which protests against efforts to reopen Mount Polley were staged at the Toronto Stock Exchange, government offices and in at least two U.S. cities. The national day of action was initiated by the B.C.-based Secwepemc Women Warriors Society. Society spokeswoman Kanahus Manuel said the warriors have been monitoring the impacts at the mine disaster site and oppose attempts to re-start the Williams Lake-area operation. Imperial Metals is continuing work on the tailings storage facility and has not been given permission by the province to resume operations. The lake and surrounding area are the subject of a number of scientific studies, as well as ongoing water quality monitoring. — with files from The Canadian Press
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