Episode 2: "Natural Resource Development in British Columbia"
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.
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