Tag: John Horgan

Fighting for Peace Valley

Residents of British Columbia's Peace Valley -- including members of the Saulteau First Nations -- are fighting the controversial Site C dam project, which would flood their land and alter the region's ecology. Alison Bate talks with families whose lives have been turned upside down by the project.

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Swanson Occupation: The battle for wild salmon

First Nations chief Ernest Alfred set off a battle to ban fish farms in British Columbia by occupying a tiny island in Broughton Archipelago. Indigenous activists claim the farms spread disease to wild salmon, and in June, the BC government announced future permits must meet First Nations approval.

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