7 BC's
willingness to sacrifice the Peace reflects deliberate self-serving
blindness.
BC is
willing to sacrifice the Peace because it is "out of sight, out
of mind." Because of distance
(our 3000 km staycation?), the region is far from the BC centres of
power and population. Most British Columbians will never have seen
Peace River country. It is just there, on the other side of the
mountains, in territory that seems more logically to belong to a
prairie province, if mountain peaks and river watersheds were used to
determine boundaries.
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| Near Fort St John, BC |
No one in BC feels responsible for
environmental degradation, water shortages and water quality issues,
downriver, in a neighbouring province or territory. We never even
hear of the damage done farther east, by our interference with the
river's flow. In the same way that we never hear the voices or the
opinions of the BC residents in Peace River country. Not enough
people care. It is BC hinterland, ripe for exploitation, there to
service the rest of us.
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