A handful of first day sions prevail against the worlds biggest farmed salmon producer. One thousand kilometers to the northeast at the foot of the Rocky Mountains lies the peace river valley. Here to a few people are fighting against a Large Company this time a state owned one. B. C. Hydro plans to flood a nearly one hundred kilometer stretch of this river valley. Including the bone familys farm. But arlene boone can still prune her wild roses is almost a miracle. A new road was supposed to run through here. Her husband canned his getting the machines ready to work the land along the river its land that no longer belongs to them. We were expelled predated we we we refused to sell to them and and so so day expropriated show on december fifteenth of two thousand and sixteen last winter day expropriated and. This is fertile soil among the best farmland in all of canada the bones say. Everything is so easy gardening and futile so i dont you dont you know you cant just do that anywhere and and thats why the land here in the family says so unique were Third Generation and farmers here on a piece of property that you know we planned on passing on to our kids and our grandkids. Grandpa came here in the late fortys and built this house in about fifty two fifty three in there somewhere and he would have to here until he was up in his ninetys this is a photo. Of my grandpa standing on the steps of the hosts this house. The host that he built. It just. Sort of. Tears me up that a project. Cant be justified and the house has been destroyed and the land has been destroyed for a project thats not being justified. The project is the planned side sea hydroelectric down on the peace river. The earth movers have been roaring down in the valley for two and a half years now theyre part of British Columbias largest and most expensive construction project. Its already cost two billion canadian dollars. And this is what the earth filled dam is supposed to look like when its completed in two thousand and twenty four that he zines call for a yearly output of five thousand one hundred gigawatt hours of electricity for the next one hundred years power for growth and progress for industry and electric cars. The construction site is close to fort st john a transportation hub along the alaska highway the town is booming. The dam project is filling the order books for local companies and providing thousands of jobs regional assemblyman dan davies says he was elected because he wholeheartedly backed the dam project even though his liberal party lost its majority in the province. I recognize that there are families that are going to be directly impacted by sightsee. You know and i understand they certainly have a different connection to this project than i would i was the one candidate that rahm and a big piece of my campaign was to ensure that site c. Was a go ahead i was the only candidate out of all the candidates that ran in the last election that had that as you know as part of the platform and i ended up i won in this riding you know with one of the biggest the biggest margin in the province of a when i door knocked over two thousand doors many of those here in fourteen john and i think out of out of all of those doors two people told me that they had you know and they were opposed to it but they questioned sightsee they understand the need that you know British Columbia is growing our energy needs are increasing and were going to need this reliable source of electricity. This was once a campground with which the boone family earned a little extra cash alongside the farm until the expropriation a new bypass road is supposed to run right through it we opened the campground just temporarily for the paddle for the. For this event only. Things are being readied for the guests hundreds are expected. Ken boone is preparing the meadow for the big protest event that will take place the next day. Dagger culture capability here of course is just so phenomenal with the low elevation. Bottom lands here. Everything we need here to to run a successful farm operation and just live in a beautiful place its already here. For the first time in years there seems to be a sense of hope that site c. Could be defeated. And. The guests start arriving from the capital of victoria. Was a good to see a good result of a trip being clued environmentalists Green Party Politicians amnesty international. Spirits are high theres been a changing of the guard in British Columbia politicians who pushed through site c. Have been voted out of office now the opponents of the down mark pinning their hopes on the new government under john horgan anybody that wants to see the summit of carnage that b. C. Hydro did in march just come on over here just cost them at least one hundred fifty grand but probably more like two hundred grand just to do what we see here but i mean the good news is that he n. D. P. Theyre now government and. Who knows whats going to happen here i dont think were going to get kicked out of our house on july fifteenth. They drive stakes into the ground as a sign of their commitment to the protest the dam was an emotive issue in the election campaign. The newly elected government has promised to critically reexamine the costly project and. Its encouraging you know its it is a little tiring and but its great you know and to have the conversations with everybody and how upbeat they are on doing this together as united the province and the country and everything. It just gives us so much more energy to go on todays kind of like a little celebration of you know to recognize a lot of the people taking part in it and to celebrate where were at right now what we have achieved and what were you know what looks to be coming our way right now. This is the twelfth time the paddle for peace has been held although the river valley now belongs to b. C. Hydro and although order is worth billions of dollars have already been tendered the opponents are feeling optimistic. Paddling in front is Clarence Wilson of the west moberly First Nations. If you come here and smell this place and and see whats here its going to be hard to make that decision to destroy it. The Decision Makers who are contemplating destroying the valley have not come to the paddle for the peace. That. The ancestors of the First Nations are buried in this valley these were their hunting grounds theres no other spaces like the future of the valley. Its just different because of its the climate there are moves else near that valley would be absolutely critical to those animal survival they use those the river and the islands on the river they use those for calving. The First Nations and the farmers have formed an alliance to defend their homeland against b. C. Hydro and sightsee. I first moberly women plied the visitors with bacon sausages and bank cakes sustenance with a hot summer day. But theyre pleased to have prominent supporters of. The Royal Society of canada a respected Scientific Organization has taken up their cause. Amnesty international has started an International Campaign for them. And follows ins of letters from well wishers of arrived. Much more abstract. And so. There are First Nations in this region who have lived here for generations this is their territory theres a treaty that recognizes that that goes way back to the founding of canada and its its an essential. Of who canada is as a nation that treaty has been disregarded and the canadian government has shown complete indifference as to whether or not the site c. Dam is even going to violate or not treaty rights time we can almost celebrate but the leader of Canadas Green Party has also come for the first time the greens are part of a Coalition Government in British Columbia on them we have seen the winds of change blow through victoria and they have blown Christie Clark on her promise of taking this past the point of no return to right out the door. But will the new government have the courage to halt north americas largest down project after so much money has already been spent on. Molina dawson has been at the fish farm on the Pacific Coast for forty days now her people also received encouragement from the greens and the social democrats during the election campaign. Some politicians have promised to revoke the fish farms licenses. Id like it. Possible for us to. Live all the while to start bringing more of our families back in for the week and start living on a place like your island and live for a while will have been over who i think would like her all. Right now if her greens were. To return. Fishing industry is been declining respect for the farmers and the Tourism Industry is going through. Not going to last with hope while peddling either so theres really not very many off. While small communities like. The transport ship is bringing more young fish for the farmers. In the hold our son growing on land for a year after hatching from eggs from norway. Now the juvenile salmon are going to be released into the pans. The protestors are waiting for them despite warnings from Marine Harvest staff. Crossing the side of their urine stream being you saw how we came in right in the tide dont just see this. Boat im asking you very clearly do not go in there its a mystery. To get down to. The. Little. Girl killed her for the rivers of gold. This is about you cant kill off our wild salmon to make money growing farmed salmon. Does not feed the world im sorry but thats just a complete myth but if you want to go salmon farming all means do it do it in tank dont kill off the natural world. Just to grow a cheap salmon product kind of looks like this. During the occupation members of the Marine Conservation n. G. O. S sea shepherd captures some film footage underwater. The material shows many healthy looking fish but also some that seem diseased. Later on analyzes the images on board the escort ship im seeing this footage for the first time. So theres fish with huge huge swelling on it i dont know if thats a tumor or is that a big sore thats about to burst and release some kind of infectious bacteria or virus. She shows us pictures of obviously diseased fish taken by the environmental activists and other fish farms. Where you harvest is the most aggressive of all the companies theyre the biggest they run the show why should i be allowed to test these fish because they are in public water everything in the span except the fish themselves is coming out of the pens Marine Harvest says six fish are removed from the pens so only healthy salmon reach the consumer in a t. V. Interview become pretty said alex mortons claims are not scientifically sound i think every Business Needs their critics i would just hope that those critics of the discussion around our business is one based on fact and science and not just opinion and belief are your farms. Killing off the wild so you know and thats not just my opinion thats thats fact and thats science. The occupiers have hung out a banner with a reference to peace scene rio virus or p. R. Be it implies that the virus is spreading from the fish farms to the fish in the open ocean or why its from Marine Harvest sends employees to take it down down the center or any other hereditary leader Molina Dawson steps in to defend it she says the banner belongs to the First Nations and cant be taken away forever for us to give it back or not touching any your things as we have continued to do so you just touched our thing it was one step too far that better but its the truth it was one step too far. We discuss the latest scientific findings on pissing rio virus here at the pacific biological station in a nine mm. This is where Christina Miller carries out research on the general mix of fish populations. Her team has managed to detect the scene rio virus and canada. All these little red dots are virus if you actually up the magnification youd see even more a little red to all every single little red dot here is a virus and we were able to show that the disease