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“We’ve got rednecks, commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, First Nations …”

“We’ve got rednecks, commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, First Nations, municipal leaders, you name it — it’s a broad spectrum of people who don’t find this [drilling in the Klappan] acceptable,” said Doug Donaldson, the mayor of Hazelton, B.C. and a supporter of yesterday’s resolution at the Union of B. C. Municipalities.

What a great line!

Oh, the the Office of the Wet’suwet’en chiefs has issued a call for a 10 year moratorium against coal-bed methane exploration in British Columbia.

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This was written by Tad McIlwraith. Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008, at 1:07 pm. Filed under Mining. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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  1. FieldNotes: for the Anthropology of British Columbia » Shell Remains in the Klappan (Headwaters) on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:13 pm

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