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: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center 2020
Subjects:
British Columbia
Canada
First Nations
Peace River
Online Access:https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/278
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spelling ftjarcadia:oai:arcadia.ub.lmu.de:article/278 2023-05-15T16:15:58+02:00 Voices of the Peace Fajt, Elisabeth 2020-08-27 application/pdf https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/278 eng eng Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/278/257 https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/278 Copyright (c) 2020 CC BY 4.0 Elisabeth Fajt https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Arcadia; 2020 2199-3408 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftjarcadia 2023-02-12T13:38:05Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Peace River Arcadia - Explorations in Environmental History (E-Journal) British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada
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description 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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Voices of the Peace
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publisher Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center
publishDate 2020
url https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/278
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Canada
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Peace River
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