The following remarks were given by Warren Mills from Pine Creek First Nation at the Bipole III Transmission Project Public Hearing.
“Just recently the province has closed moose hunting for Aboriginals in the Duck Mountains which has had a tremendous effect on the community. And as a result of the water problems I described, particularly the surface flooding, the blueberry fields that the community looks to are gone […] The First Nation has lost their three traditional food sources and they are troubled by the effect that Bipole [III] will have on their watershed.” – Warren Mills, Pine Creek First Nation
Testimony of Warren Mills from Pine Creek First Nation. Bipole III Transmission Project Public Hearing. (October 1, 2012.) Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Page 87. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/biopole-III-mb-hydro/doc/Transcripts/Bipole_Oct._1.pdf
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