A B-C grain farmer who drove his combine as far as Ottawa to draw attention to the plight of farmers will soon be setting off on his second protest trip to Victoria.
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Sixty-one-year-old Nick Parsons will leave for the provincial capital on his combine, dubbed Peace Valley Rose, on April 30th.
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This time, he’s voicing his opposition to B-C Hydro’s proposed Site C hydroelectric dam on the Peace River, saying the project near Fort St. John would lead to the loss of farmland.
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Construction of the dam would flood about 46-hundred hectares of agricultural land, 57 per cent of which lies in the province’s agricultural land reserve.
