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Remembering the Olympic Pipeline Tragedy

  • Pickford Film Center 1318 Bay Street Bellingham, WA, 98225 United States (map)

On June 10, 1999, the Olympic pipeline ruptured and spilled 250,000 gallons of gasoline into Whatcom Creek which ignited and killed two boys and a young man in Whatcom Falls Park. It’s been 25 years since that day. Join the Bellingham-based watchdog organization Pipeline Safety at the Pickford Film Center for a discussion and film screening to learn more about the tragic events in 1999 and what’s happened since.