Fraser River
River in British Columbia, CanadaWikipedia
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Oct 3, 2026
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
High up the hills men had built diverting barriers to turn the drifts, but the drifts had swept over everything and lay five deep on the top of the sheds.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
When we woke it was on the banks of the muddy Fraser River, and the spring was hurrying to meet us.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
The snow had gone.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
The pink blossoms of the wild currant were open.
Geoff MeggsHOST
But the new alignment is going to have to go further and into, in my view, arguably more sensitive environmental territory.
Geoff MeggsHOST
in the mouth of the Fraser River.
Geoff MeggsHOST
We'll see how the Swastika First Nation feels, what politics emerge from the Delta campaign.
Geoff MeggsHOST
Probably not much at this point, but I don't think it's going to continue to slumber like this indefinitely.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Others could not stop.
speaker_1NARRATOR
When word came in 1858 of gold on the Fraser River, far to the north in British territory, thousands of them packed up and went.
speaker_1NARRATOR
When silver was found the next year across the mountains in Nevada, more went there.
speaker_1NARRATOR
A number of men spent the rest of their lives following one rush after another and died still looking.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
Then you've got a container terminal that is scheduled for massive expansion.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
And then you're at the mouth of the Fraser River.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
So again, it'll be interesting to see what they say.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
I think if there's going to be any controversy over this thing, and I think there'll be a lot of it here in BC, where are they going to put it? That's the big question, really.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
High up the hills, men had built diverting barriers to turn the drifts, but the drifts had swept over everything and lay five deep on the top of the sheds.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
When we woke, it was on the banks of the muddy Fraser River, and the spring was hurrying to meet us.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
The snow had gone.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
The pink blossoms of the wild currant were open.
Stuart MuirGUEST
So that's what the federal government did.
Stuart MuirGUEST
Farms came out of the Discovery Islands, and that's a corridor that Fraser River, Sockeye swim through.
Stuart MuirGUEST
Now, contrary to the campaigns, the sea lice haven't gone away.
Stuart MuirGUEST
I actually over the summer this year spent a lot of time being able to say that with confidence in the sense that I spent a lot of time in the data.
Ian RobertsHOST
And it's a bit of a shock to the system, to some that claim that the sockeye were going to have a banner run this year, not exposed to, as you say, that corridor of salmon farms and the basement has dropped out.
Ian RobertsHOST
The numbers have failed.
Ian RobertsHOST
It's, I think, being termed a disastrous sockeye run to the Fraser River.
Ian RobertsHOST
So the miraculous cure didn't happen.
Adam StirlingHOST
Is that where the pipeline is going to go?
Julie LaundrieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Probably for Fraser River.
Julie LaundrieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Anyway, a lot of like water.
Julie LaundrieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So what can you tell people that are that will that don't even know yet, but that will in the next month's year be really concerned about their house, their living, the environment around them?
Margaret MackNARRATOR
The further we reach, the greater is our responsibility to protect what sustains us.
Margaret MackNARRATOR
The new money will go to the Canadian Coast Guard to step up monitoring new projects to reduce vessel noise that can disorient whales and restoration of the Fraser River estuary.
Margaret MackNARRATOR
The pipeline and the Roberts Bank terminal expansion are both being considered for that national interest designation, and both would mean many more ships in the waters around Vancouver.
Margaret MackNARRATOR
Canadian taxpayers are currently set to own as much as 45% of the new pipeline, with the Alberta government owning 45% and Pembina Pipeline owning the remaining 10% share.
Adam StirlingHOST
In exchange, BC got money for port expansion for Roberts Bank, too.
Adam StirlingHOST
We got money for a new tunnel under the Fraser River, which is very important for a lot of people on the mainland.
Adam StirlingHOST
land in exchange for not kicking a screaming fight while we embarrass everybody in front of company when they try to build the pipeline, essentially.
Adam StirlingHOST
The Conservatives, being His Majesty's loyal opposition, who oppose just about everything that David Eby does, because that's literally their job, often get attacked as if they don't support things like the prosperity agreement and its elements like the pipeline and whatnot.
David BorysHOST
He could spin a story as easily as another man could pour a drink.
David BorysHOST
And on the Fraser River frontier, storytelling could be as valuable as gold.
David BorysHOST
The British Columbia of the 1860s was a rough place.
David BorysHOST
A series of gold rushes had transformed sleepy settlements into chaotic boom towns almost overnight.
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