The following remarks were given by Chief Charlie Boucher from Pine Creek First Nation at the Bipole III Transmission Project Public Hearing.
“We are here. We wanted to bring concerns that Pine Creek has, our food sources, the blueberries that we eat, on a daily, yearly basis, the economics of our people. Today we are losing the blueberries […] The hunting impacts, the trappers have great concerns. The fishery is what we also depend on, our livelihoods.” – Chief Charlie Boucher, Pine Creek First Nation
Testimony of Chief Charlie Boucher 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 27. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/biopole-III-mb-hydro/doc/Transcripts/Bipole_Oct._1.pdf
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