Rally to Stop Ajax

The following information and press release was forwarded by a member of this Concerned Citizens group.

Please join us to Rally to Stop Ajax Mine on Saturday October 26 at 12:00pm at 330 Seymour St. Kamloops. for 1 hour. 

Please bring your self, friends, children, voices or silence, signs, messages, questions and concerns. 

We need to physically show how many mothers, fathers, children, citizens, professionals, business owners, and investors are opposed to Ajax. 

We need physical numbers to accomplish this. 

Please bring a dust mask - to wear and use a felt pen & write "Stop Ajax" 

After a brief dialogue in front of the KGHM office we will walk the streets in the downtown core - silently wearing our masks (masks appreciated but optional). 

FYI: Disposable dust masks can be purchased at any hardware store, cdn tire and princess auto. 

Please tell all your friends opposed, undecided and concerned to join us!!

PRESS RELEASE:

We, citizens of Kamloops who are opposed to the degradation of our air, water, land and the well being of our health, animals, and grasslands are rallying to:

Stop Ajax 

330 Seymour St, Kamloops 

Saturday October 26 at 12:00pm

We would like to invite all citizens to join us for the Rally who are opposed, concerned, undecided and even Ajax supporters (in hopes of changing minds). We will share with the City of Kamloops the harm that will be caused to having a copper mine not only in close proximity to a city but within city limits. To address the implications of extraction-based industries and the future of not only the Canadian landscape but also our own backyard, our water shed, our recreation area and for some in Kamloops their front yards and ranch lands. In addition, the loss of some of the best fishing lakes in the TNRD, which will be, sandwiched between an open pit and tailings piles.

It is so devastating to comprehend that the City Kamloops and the Ministries of the province of BC would even consider such a ludicrous proposal in any city, we just happen to be the first of this new extraction generation to be forced to raise awareness that it is not okay to have open pit heavy metal extraction close to any city.

Please help us to avoid being the BC city who adopts an extraction based mine in exchange for dust, heavy metals, dreadful landscape scars, loss of grasslands and our right to clean air, soil and water for minimal promises of jobs and dismal economical benefits to very few locals.

We do not want to be known as the “Community in Gloom” nor the “Community without Doctors”.

We need your help to spread the news – please send your reporters to cover this Rally to STOP AJAX at 330 Seymour St, Kamloops on Saturday October 26 at 12:00pm.

Concerned Citizens fighting a battle to protect the environment and health of Kamloops, BC.