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JUNE 19, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 49
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Federal government approves pipeline expansion project BUYING IN?
MICHAEL POTESTIO AND SEAN BRADY
STAFF REPORTERS
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Chris Walton with daughter Micaela at the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children in Vancouver. The 10-year-old is recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning following an incident in a tent while camping at Sandy Point Beach in the Shuswap on the Victoria Day long weekend. Micaela’s mom, Lucille Beaurain, died after the tent filled with CO after a stove was used to heat the inside of the tent.
MICAELA’S ON THE MEND
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Kamloops girl hospitalized after being overcome with carbon monoxide during a camping trip continues to recover and may be able to soon return home. Lucille Beaurain died and daughter Micaela Walton, 10, was rushed to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver after the pair was overcome with carbon monoxide on May 18 while sleeping in their tent at the Sandy Point Beach campground in the Shuswap.
Mounties said a cooking pot used as a source of heat is believed to have been the source of the carbon monoxide poisoning. The pre-teen is now at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children in Vancouver, where she is undergoing physiotherapy. This was preceded by a harrowing few days in the intensive-care unit and a stay in the children’s ward. “She was basically on life support for three days,” said Micaela’s father, Chris Walton, who has been by her side since the incident. See MICAELA, A4
As expected, the federal Liberal government is giving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion a second lease on life. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced approval of the project and said work will begin this construction season. The decision to reapprove the project comes nine months after the Federal Court of Appeal ripped up the original federal approval, citing incomplete Indigenous consultations and a faulty environmental review. Trudeau said the court told the government it needed to do better. “And you know what?” Trudeau said. “They were right.” The Liberals
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Former Tk’emlups chief Shane Gottfriedson is part of an Indigenous group determined to buy a majority stake in Trans Mountain. STORY, PAGE A22 ordered the National Energy Board to look at marine shipping impacts and Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi started another round of consultations with Indigenous communities affected by the project. KamloopsThompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod was not surprised by the decision, but doubted the government’s ability to get shovels in the ground. “I’m not all that optimistic that this government can get
it done,” McLeod told KTW. She said there remain hurdles for Trudeau’s government to overcome and doubted his commitment, but said if construction can get underway, the project would be a boon to the region. “For the North Thompson especially, with the closure of Canfor in Vavenby, this is a potential lifeline for the construction season if it goes ahead,” she said. See TK’EMLUPS, A6