Dropping the Gloves to Fight for a River
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in News, environmental news, take me to the river

Willie Mitchell, a rugged defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings and a former Vancouver Canuck, is dropping his gloves to fight for a river he has loved since he was a boy.

“The Kokish is close to my heart,” he said of the river on northern Vancouver Island where a proposed independent power project would divert a substantial amount of the water into a pipe to generate hydroelectricity.

LINK (Via: The Globe and Mail)

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