the review panel has determined that the operator b.c. hydro hugely overestimated the power demand in british columbia order to justify the project. the construction of the dam has many risks the schedule can't be met and the dam will be considerably more expensive than planned are these findings enough to get the new government to rescind the massive project. what came out in the process was that the projects over budget are ready and and over schedule and they anticipate a whole lot more respect could cause it to go further over budget so much has changed this year in and i mean this spring things were pretty grim. you know it and if we. didn't have a change of government they'd be really grim right now i think they'd be building a road race where we are right now so we're thankful. i am very optimistic that we will be the garden and bring. this process looks really hopeful for us information that's coming out is you know positive. things are looking a lot more hopeful than they were you know two three months ago for sure. victoria the capita

b.c. hydro plans to flood a nearly one hundred kilometer stretch of this river valley. including the bone family's farm. but arlene boone can still prune her wild roses is almost a miracle. a new road was supposed to run through here. her husband canned his getting the machines ready to work the land along the river its land that no longer belongs to them. we were expelled pre-dated we we we refused to sell to them and and so so day expropriated show on december fifteenth of two thousand and sixteen last winter day expropriated and. this is fertile soil among the best farmland in all of canada the bones say. everything is so easy gardening and futile so i don't you don't you know you can't just do that anywhere and and that's why the land here in the family says so unique we're third generation and farmers here on a piece of property that you know we planned on passing on to our kids and our grandkids. grandpa came here in the late forty's and built this house in about fifty two fifty three in there somewhere and he would have to here until he was up in his ninety's thi

the review panel has determined that the operator b.c. hydro hugely overestimated the power demand in british columbia you know order to justify the project. the construction of the dam has many risks the schedule can't be met and the dam will be considerably more expensive than planned are these findings enough to get the new government to rescind the massive project. what came out in the process was that the projects over budget are ready and and over schedule and began to separate a whole lot more respect could cause it to go further over budget so much has changed this year in and i mean this spring things were pretty grim. you know and if we'd. didn't have a change of government they'd be really grim right now i think they'd be building a road race where we are right now so we're thankful. i am very optimistic that we will be feeding the garden and the fields in the spring. this process looks really hopeful for us but information that's coming out is you know positive for us. things are looking. more hopeful than they were you know two thr

plane to the northeast in the rocky mountains this river is slated to disappear energy company b.c. hydro is building a dam here the project is the biggest of its kind in all north america. god creator gave us this beautiful place and more i didn't want to see destroyed. it's a cool foggy morning in early september when we first meet molina dawson. she and her mother are loading supplies on to her uncle mike's boat and will be accompanying molina for the next few weeks. they're bringing the supplies from port mcneill to the fish farm protesters. function can come in let's say to me. and i'm twenty one and got a big family home school. says while on the in the bone it even when the fish are they do you reside a lot to this coast and it's been going down. especially in their ease with these fish fams. the platform appears out of the fog. inside the nets the farmed fish are jumping. the dock alongside the boat that belongs to molina's grandfather chief william o. the leader of the protest. a marine harvest employee with binoculars is keeping a lookout. for the company is allowing the occupie

the construction site in autumn two thousand and seventeen the mood has changed b.c. hydro seems nervous they refuse us permission to film anywhere here. these are the barracks for the two thousand construction workers we're not allowed in but we get one of them to join us outside the. people here are rattled a day ago two hundred employees were laid off. while morale does go down when you hear stuff like that when you see stuff like that as a shutdown as a friend of mine says i mean it will just be the most expensive landscape in the world to shut this down we've got to put everything back to somewhat well how it was before so you just can have you know a couple billion dollars landscape. this concern in fort st john on the alaska highway businesses suppliers and construction companies here all profit from the billions of dollars in orders connected with the dam. a hearing is taking place at a local hotel unions employers and citizens opposed to the dam are all putting pressure on the government. cancel it and take that loss the lawsuits would go on for a long time it woul