4 Drowning Food-producing Land

4  Drowning food-producing land is wrong. 

There are many different ways that damming 100+ more km of the Peace River and its tributaries is wrong. For one, arable land is being flooded - destroying plant and animal life, impacting the lives of hundreds, thousands of British Columbia residents.. Food Security, our willingness and ability to feed ourselves, is being undermined. The provincial government took land out of the ALR (Agricultural Land Reserve) to clear the way for dam and reservoir. In August, 2015, a chairman of the Agricultural Land Commission, Richard Bullock, was fired in order to facilitate this reversal. Removing arable land from protection is a short-sighted self-serving decision which will have a negative impact on the future of the province. 

We seldom hear of the concerns of northern residents down in "the Lower Mainland," but all along the road I saw billboards protesting. 

I want to say "northern citizens" concerned about food security, but many must feel not like citizens who have the respect of fellow citizens and elected officials but rather as victims. Because their fellow citizens and elected officials, to the dismay of residents, plan to drown their valley and destroy the way they have chosen to live their lives, growing food for themselves and others. A crime against the human right to choose where to live and what work you will do.