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‘We want clean water back’: British Columbia town fights hydro plant
Hudson’s Hope residents receive offer from power corporation BC Hydro after three-year nightmare
Undrinkable water, thick red slime and a powerful utility operator. For residents of a remote community in British Columbia, the last three years have been nothing short of a nightmare after losing access to a clean source of water.
But now, Hudson’s Hope has emerged as the unlikely victor in its battle against BC Hydro, the province’s utilities operator that is nearing completion on a controversial dam, after a standoff that a councillor says threatened the community with financial ruin and left it “exhausted, consumed and broken”.
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