The following remarks were given by Rene Gambler from Pine Creek First Nation at the Bipole III Public Hearing Community Meeting: Dauphin.
“We die from the chemicals, the pollution, the mercury, from the animals we eat. And if those people out there say they don’t want your lines coming through our hunting grounds, where we eat from, where we live from, where we survive from, I will be standing there with them to tell you guys to put your lines elsewhere. That’s all I have to say.” – Rene Gambler, Pine Creek First Nation
Testimony of Rene Gambler from Pine Creek First Nation. Bipole III Public Hearing Community Meeting: Dauphin. (October 22, 2012). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Watson Arts Centre in Dauphin, MB. Volume 9; page 1548. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/biopole-III-mb-hydro/doc/Transcripts/cecdauphin.pdf
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