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Hat Creek

Item is a photograph of a photograph of a cattle ranch in Hat Creek, British Columbia. The photograph is a snapshot that was taken to copy an image of a man on the back of a truck that is loaded with bales of hay giving hay to the cattle that are near the truck. There are trees, a hill and snow on the ground in the background of the photograph.

Hat Creek (B.C.)

Ranches such as this one were being impacted by a project that was intended for the area by B.C. Hydro & Power Authority who proposed that the Hat Creek coal deposit could be used to fuel generators for electric power generation. Because this large coal deposit contained high levels of sulphur and other toxic trace elements, environmentalists were concerned that even with pollution control devices, the mining would result in the drift of acid rain which would threaten the fragile ecology of the dry alkaline interior. The people of the Bonaparte Reserve who live closest to the project were concerned as well and were already being negatively impacted by having their livelihoods threatened. Since B.C. Hydro had been buying out ranching operations to secure the land for the project, half of the people on the Bonaparte Band List were forced to leave their homes to look for other employment.

1 photograph : b&w polyester negative ; 9.9 x 12.5 cm

Related article appeared on page 10 of UBCIC News (February 1979), entitled "Hydro Buying Out Ranches".

Basil, Steven (photographer)

Copyright held by Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

Title transcribed from back of photograph print

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