Ground zero
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier John Horgan got together Tuesday morning in a hotel conference room in Vancouver to applaud an investors' decision to build a huge fracked gas export plant on B.C.'s coast, they were 1,300 kilometres from ground zero for B.C.'s natural gas industry.
There, in a remote pocket of northeastern B.C., the land has become a jigsaw puzzle of human-created disturbance with more than 110,000 linear kilometres of roads, pipelines and transmission and seismic lines.
Call it death by a thousand cuts, or call it cumulative impacts. Call it whatever you like: it's what the Blueberry River First Nation has been dealing with for decades. And it's why Blueberry River took the province to court.
We sent journalist Christopher Pollon and photographer Garth Lenz to document the impacts Blueberry River has been experiencing and we bring you that feature this week.
Keep reading for much more coverage of the big LNG announcement and more.
Emma Gilchrist
Editor-in-Chief, The Narwhal
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