TV News Story - Paddle to the Premier event to stop Site C Dam

Sunday, September 19, 2010

This is a TV news story about Sunday September 19 2010 when several hundred people, lead by several First Nations Chiefs from the Treaty 8 Tribes of Northeast BC, gathered on the lawn of the Legislature in Victoria BC.
Earlier they had canoed through Victoria's harbour calling their flotilla the "Paddle to the Premier" The Chiefs, northern residents, and members of conservation groups like David Suzuki Foundation, Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club had come together to protest the proposed Site C Dam on the Peace River.

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