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AUGUST 13, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 97
BRAY TELL, WHAT’S YOUR NAME? Lia Bisson and threeyear-old son Grant get acquainted with Eeyore from the Turtle Valley Donkey Refuge during a weekend visit to St. Andrews on the Square. The animals from the refuge in Turtle Valley, near Chase, made the visit to the city to spread awareness about the program. For more information, go online to turtlevalleydonkey refuge.com.
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THE ISSUES
Each week, KTW quizzes the candidates on a topic of the week. Today, we ask: Kamloops has been hit by super storms three of the past four years. What will you do as MP to prepare infrastructure in Kamloops for the next super storm to hit the city?
Consequences of climate change?
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While they’ll leave the specifics to the city, federal election candidates say they will do what they can to make sure Kamloops is prepared for the next super storm to rain down on the Interior. As a pair of candidates agree, Kamloops will almost certainly be hit again. “The argument to be used is that the climatechange projection model suggests that the Interior is going to be targeted with these instant storms, with massive amounts of wind and water, far more frequently in coming years,” said Liberal candidate Steve Powrie, referring to data from the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Powrie said a key part of the Liberal platform will be to jump-start an economy in recession through infrastructure programs. He would look to make storm preparedness in Kamloops a priority for funding. Powrie said the specifics would be better left to experts, but he cited installing divergent channels in high-risk areas and using vegetation to increase water retention on hills around the city as projects that might help.
$1M pledged to restore grasslands CAM FORTEMS
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Kinder Morgan has pledged to spend $1 million restoring a right-ofway through Lac Du Bois Grasslands Provincial Park, as well as areas damaged by off-road vehicles, in its application to permit twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The spending pledges are contained in the corporation’s most recent addendum to its proposal to twin the TransMountain line through a number of
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creation in the early 1990s. The Telus line through the grasslands was replanted with a European species, crested wheatgrass, commonly used because it is quick and successful. Kinder Morgan stated in the latest version of its application to the province it is working with Thompson Rivers University researchers and a subsidiary of the Tk’emlups Indian Band to harvest native seeds that will be used if it is permitted to develop the route. See PIPELINE, A4
Dozens drop out of NEB review of Kinder Morgan proposal, claiming bias Page A28
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provincial parks and protected areas, including North Thompson and Finn Creek provincial parks and the Lac Du Bois Grasslands protected area above Westsyde. At Lac Du Bois, Kinder Morgan has pledged to spend about $1.2 million on measures to improve habitat, reduce intrusion and increase signage in the park. The offer is made to compensate for placing its pipeline through the park alongside a Telus fibreoptic line that predates the park’s
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