Episode 2: Natural Resource Development in British Columbia
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This month’s episode focuses on resource development in British Columbia. Last November, the Nature/History/Society group hosted a roundtable on hydro in BC, featuring Jeremy Mouat (University of Alberta), Tina Loo (University of British Columbia), and Paul Hirt (Arizona State). In this episode we highlight a selection from Tina Loo’s talk on hydro-electric development and high modernism called ‘Towards an Environmental History of ‘Progress’. You can listen to the full roundtable on hydro in BC here.
Also, this month we feature an interview with Jonathan Peyton, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at UBC who is studying the history of resource conflict in the Stikine Plateau region of northern British Columbia.
Guests:
Jeremy Mouat
Tina Loo
Paul Hirt
Jonathan Peyton
Work Cited:
On the Environment” Special Issue BC Studies 142/143 (Summer/Autumn 2004)
Music Credits:
“See You Later“ by Pixt
“Smoke” by Pixt
“No” by Pixt
“Fun Key” by Pixt
Photo Credit:
“Site C dam site Fort St John 2017” by jasonwoodhead23
Citation:
Kheraj, Sean. “Episode 2: Natural Resource Development in British Columbia.” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast. 19 January 2009.

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