Voices of the Peace : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2020, no. 32: Voices of the Peace

On 11 December 2017, the government of British Columbia in western Canada announced a final decision that had far-reaching consequences, in particular for farmers and First Nations communities of the Peace Region: the construction of the third hydroelectric power plant called Site C on the Peace Riv...

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Main Author: Fajt, Elisabeth
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2020
Subjects:
environmental history
environmental humanities
conflicts
dams
indigenous people
resistance
Canada
British Columbia
First Nations
Peace River
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9100
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9100/
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Summary:On 11 December 2017, the government of British Columbia in western Canada announced a final decision that had far-reaching consequences, in particular for farmers and First Nations communities of the Peace Region: the construction of the third hydroelectric power plant called Site C on the Peace River will continue. Since its initiation about 40 years ago, the project has been accompanied by controversial debates within the local population that led to the Canadian federal court of justice. Drawing from my fieldwork during the last three months before the final decision, this article explores the voices of people who were involved in the fight against the Site C dam.

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