Editor’s note: The following program was broadcast on August three months prior to the Bute Inlet landslide. One of the reasons local historian Judith Williams gave for rejecting a proposed run of the river project in that region is “to run power out of there, you have to build these 400 foot wide corridors along the side of the Inlet  to place the things to hold the power lines. The Inlet avalanche is at a flicker of an eyelash anyway, and that will just encourage everything to just go down further into the Inlet itself and alter the chemistry there.” The Bute Inlet slide she predicted occured on Nov 28, 2019. 

More than a quarter of the planet’s population do not have access to sufficient clean water. While this problem is usually associated with developing nations, England and the United States are expected to face serious shortages in the decades to come. Meanwhile, British Columbia continues to give our water away for next to nothing. In this morning’s program, Judith Williams raises concerns about a private company coveting lands along the Jewaka & Heakami Rivers, just north of Bute Inlet, British Columbia.