After residents and activists rang alarm bells during early salmon run on Aug. 7, pipeline workers continued in Kw’ikw’iya:la River until Aug. 21
Trans Mountain continued working in the Kw’ikw’iya:la River on and off for two weeks after being admonished for jeapordizing an already-precarious salmon run, IndigiNews has learned.
Tubes fed into decommissioned drainage pumps that sat in the river were hanging from the edge of the riverbank, as workers in harnesses cautiously navigated the water’s current to remove whatever equipment was left of such machines. Both the sandbags and drainage pumps were used to reduce the flow of water through the excavation area as the pipe was being installed.
“Any early-run salmon were able to continue to move upstream and downstream through the area where instream work was occurring,” the company said in an email to IndigiNews. “No sockeye salmon were harmed during construction. Several salmon observed within the instream area where works were occurring were moved upstream away from the works.”
Henry recorded himself confronting two TMX workers, expressing deep concerns about the fate of the salmon run. She decided to visit the TMX construction site along the Coquihalla River a week after viewing Henry’s video, to get a glimpse of the work herself. “It’s bad enough that they’re putting in this pipeline,” she said. “But to be right in the river, right when the fish are spawning – how are we supposed to get the fish to come back if they’re wrecking where the spawning is supposed to be?”
DFO told IndigiNews that the salmon migration timing to the Fraser River, which the Coquihalla River is a tributary of, is typically from April through October depending on the species and natal stream. Meanwhile, Trans Mountain stated that “The early-run sockeye salmon observed in the Coquihalla River were associated with the early-run Stuart River population and were not expected in the Coquihalla River lower reaches.”
“My main concern is that if we keep going on with the materialistic mindset that we’re all living in, what is going to be left for our kids and our grandkids?” said Tso. “What if my grandkids don’t even get to eat salmon? And they don’t even know what it’s like?” “This should outrage everyone. Not only people who live near the river – all of us depend on this river.”
Tairyan is calling for more accountability from both the government and Trans Mountain, and for the construction of the pipeline to be stopped.
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