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
Her ear. These have not been addressed they were to have been addressed by the two governments and theyre really. The construction site in autumn two thousand and seventeen the mood has changed b. C. Hydro seems nervous they refuse us permission to film anywhere here. These are the barracks for the two thousand construction workers were not allowed in but we get one of them to join us outside the. People here are rattled a day ago two hundred employees were laid off. While morale does go down when you hear stuff like that when you see stuff like that as a shutdown as a friend of mine says i mean it will just be the most expensive landscape in the world to shut this down weve got to put everything back to somewhat well how it was before so you just can have you know a couple billion dollars landscape. This concern in fort st john on the alaska highway businesses suppliers and Construction Companies here all profit from the billions of dollars in orders connected with the dam. A hearing
A condition known as jaundice. Every fish that has is diagnosed with jaundice has high loads of the p. C. North a real virus the damage in the the in the liver the damage in the kidney the viruses surrounding the cells and inside of the cells that are becoming a chronic and dying. Her findings contradict claims made by marine harvest. Miller explains why fish farms pose a risk to free swimming wild salmon on this coast. Even if you have an early stage of disease it could be a death knell to a wild fish because they cant keep up if they are if they are physiologically compromised and they cant swim and they cant feed and their vision is affected their dead fish swimming. The towering totem pole in alert bay is the Cultural Center of the first nation people here on the pacific its october tenth and john horgan the new premier of British Columbia has come to listen to the tribal protesters did you know. Will he deliver on his partys Campaign Promises and revoke the salmon farms license. M
Mid Summer Island on Canadas Pacific coast Indigenous People from the most cmon First Nations have occupied a fish farm near. Gonzaga. About the traditional good bird. And you have never been given rights to be or dont tell me dont eat you can see i dont know about. The protest is directed at Marine Harvest or Norwegian Company the worlds biggest salmon producer. Two hours away by plane to the northeast in the Rocky Mountains this river is slated to disappear Energy Company b. C. Hydro is building a dam here the project is the biggest of its kind in all north america. God creator gave a beautiful place and norm i dont know if. Its a cool foggy morning in Early September when we first meet melina dawson. She and her mother are loading supplies on to her uncle mikes book. It will be a company molina for the next few weeks. Theyre bringing the supplies from port mcneill to the fish farm protesters. And from king came in lets really and then twenty one got a big family home school. Says wi