Life at 50°C Canada
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Drone trees |
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FROM PATRICK’S IV |
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Camchin British
Columbia, Canada |
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Patrick Michell: When I
was growing up my grandmother used to tell me that we lived here forever. |
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There’s this collective conscious knowledge that is
handed down from generation to generation. |
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NAME CAPTION: Patrick
Michell Chief
of Kanaka Bar Indian Band |
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What you do to the land, you to do yourselves,
that’s how I was raised. |
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But since a child I’ve seen changes in ecosystems,
I’ve seen less water, I’ve seen the trees struggling with drought and heat
anxiety. |
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And if you abuse the land, Climate Change is a
logical consequence. |
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This summer Canada endured a heatwave scientists said was impossible without climate change. Source: World Weather Attribution Network |
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this weekend temperature records could be shattered across the province. |
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A new all time record of 49.5 degrees celsius. |
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The
hotspot of course Lytton British COlumbia. |
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Caption: Patrick's hometown of Lytton was engulfed by a wildfire. |
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Archive credit: 2 Rivers Remix |
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Archive credit: Sunshine Liliane |
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Caption:
Most Lytton residents have First Nation heritage. Now they have nowhere to go. |
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UPSYNC OF DOT AND DAUGHTER My All you’re left with is memories |
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Caption: Now the region’s divided. Some are fighting to end deforestation
which increases global warming. WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE TO;
Now protestors have converged for the
biggest environmental protest Canada’s ever seen. |
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Let’s make some noise for fairy creek |
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Rainbow eyes: We have fires all
around the world |
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All we want to do is protect the old growth |
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Reinforce the line, reinforce the line |
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Credit: Robin Y |
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Others want logging to continue. WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE TO: Others are fighting to protect their
livelihoods. |
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They’re gonna
tell us how forestry should be inBritish Columbia.
You’re not from here, go home. |
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We’re trying to defend our
livelihood. |
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LIFE AT 50C: The Town that Burnt Down in a
Day |
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Johanna at home |
Johanna Wagstaffe:
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Location
caption: Vancouver |
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And I
connect right to the studio. OK. Hi Ian. |
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Fellow
meteorologists and I saw this potential for a huge heatwave event. |
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NAME CAPTION: Johanna Wagstaffe Meteorologist |
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Climate
change means our summers are hotter and drier. |
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So the brush and the fuel dries
out so much quicker and fires start and spread and get out of control so much
faster |
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A big
dome of high pressure has built across this part of Northern America trapping
the air in place. |
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This
heat dome sat and cooked everything underneath. |
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The
village of Lytton reached 46.6 degrees Celsius yesterday. |
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that’s
just over 121 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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And the
next day, it went up in flames. |
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Dot: As I opened the door it’s smoke everywhere. |
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Dot
Phillips Lytton
First Nation |
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It was like
a, a big hit of heat, it … everything was orange and grey ash falling. |
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Dot’s home,
shot by landlord Genevieve Bujold. |
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Dylan: I felt like we only had minutes, seconds just to
grab what we can. |
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Dylan
Phillips Lytton
First Nation |
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Dot: As we were like leaving those flames went from
here, to as high as trees. Just seeing my home town
in flames, |
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Genevieve: Our house is to the point of almost burning soon,
so wish us luck. |
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Dylan: I just kept going back into town cos I knew my
landlord was still there so I started helping him to
fight the fire. |
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Genevieve:
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Dot: Pretty bad out there. |
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Dot: Not even within an hour, everything was
gone. |
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All you’re left with is memories. |
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Serena in hotel |
Serena Michell-Grenier: We had left the house in minutes before it was on fire. |
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NAME CAPTION Serena
Michell-Grenier Lytton
First Nation |
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We basically left with the clothes on our backs. |
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I was actually 8 months pregnant the day of the fire. |
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Let’s go. |
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He’s happy, he’s content. |
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I cried
with relief when I found out we had a hotel that would accept our pets. |
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Patrick: Theres a list on
the side of the door it says there’s supposed to be 3 mixing bowls. Serena: Oh yeah i was
going to tell you you took too much stuff with you |
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Patrick: we lost our
home, living with me at the time, was my daughter, Serena were able to get a hotel room in Abbotsford and we’ve been there ever since |
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NAME CAPTION: Patrick Michell Chief of Kanaka Bar Indian Band |
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Patrick Michell: So what’s
your plan for dinner? Serena: I’m just going to order in, I was going to cook
but I’m really pooped, exhausted. |
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CAPTION: Lytton
has been an exclusion zone, but now Patrick has permission to visit his home
for the first time since the fire. |
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Patrick Michell: This is Judith and Ross Erckhart’s
their house. There the former principal, lost her home. |
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This is the Lytton hotel. It’s fire escapes stayed
up, as did it’s chimney. The doctor’s office, the hospital, all to the
right. Gone. |
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To the left we have St Barnabas Church, its rectory and a memorial parish hall, that survived, so
somehow the fire did not get those three buildings. |
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Okay. |
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So this
is 167 (unclear) Road, 25 years we've been working in this property, one
board at a time. |
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One of the greatest memories of every one of my six
kids and 16 grandchildren is this, and I don’t know if it's gonna live. |
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Thought I'd lost all my tools. |
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Hoh, a drill made it. My sabre saw made
it. It's good to see you guys. [LAUGHS] I'm pretty sure the battery’s gone
on this one. |
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Some blame the fire on the cargo train that ran past Lytton
despite tinder-box conditions. Source: on location info and news sites |
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REFERENCES
IN HIGHLIGHTED SECTION BELOW ARE FROM DAISY’S DV 02 45 TO 0305 PATRICK: The
people who’d been suffering got together.
And maybe some of them wanted to be angry. Some of them wanted to protest. (footage of protests beside the railway line). |
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NEW CAPTION;
An investigation Source: Transportation Safety
Board |
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Patrick:
(from DV) It wasn’t
the train that burnt my house down. It
was a byproduct of climate change. HEat, drought, wind, created conditions that took one
spark. That one spark occurred and we lost our town. |
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GFX MAP LYTTON TO FAIRY CREEK |
MAP TRANSITION LYTTON TO FAIRY CREEK |
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NEW CAPTION: Protestors have converged on Vancouver Island this summer for Canada's
biggest ever environmental protest. Source: CBC and other news
reports |
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Archive: activists remain in Fairy Creek ready to be arrested in their fight to
save old growth trees |
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UGC of protestors pushing against
police: ‘hold the line’ |
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UGC: This was a fucking 1000 year old beech tree |
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UGC protestor on platform |
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Fly eagle fly |
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Chanting Rainbow
Eyes: What’s happening in Fairy Creek is people of all
backgrounds have come together to protect some of the last remaining old-growth on Vancouver Island, and not just Vancouver
Island, the planet. |
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Name caption: Rainbow Eyes
Old-growth logging protester Fairy Creek is Pacheedaht First
Nation territory; some members oppose the logging, but their leaders permit
it. |
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Chanting:
Thank you for helping us teach the police |
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25th June 2021 |
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Rainbow Eyes was arrested for breaching an injunction against Impeding logging activities. |
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everybody at Fairy Creek has been there long term we know we’re doing the right thing,
Rainbow Eyes: This past
summer has been one that everybody’s talking about. My parents don’t remember
it being this hot. We must risk everything. |
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SYNC: look at
that tree growing right out |
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Rainbow Eyes: This summer in
British Columbia has been one of the worst fire seasons. |
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PLACE CAPTION: Cathedral Grove Protected old-growth forest |
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Rainbow Eyes
in forest: The pathway’s
right there. |
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An entire town
burnt down and this is a whole section of forest
that’s gone. I feel like it’s connected with the fact that we have zero
respect for the trees. |
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We dont see cedars that big any more,
like how often dou see firs with that kind of bark. |
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Rainbow Eyes: I’m a member of the Da'naxda'xw-Awaetlala
First Nation. |
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There are stories that when our people
decided to cut down a cedar tree they would dance around the tree like years
before they needed to harvest the tree. That would loosen the roots and
prepare the tree to be fallen, eventually for a canoe or for their home. |
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That’s how much preparation went into
it. |
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And now we just like cut them down you know
in a matter of minutes. |
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New caption: Old-growth forests help fight climate change; they
store carbon and keep areas cool. Source: Canadian Forest
Service |
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We know our forests help us clean our
air and it’s an exchange. We know that the old-growth trees help on a bigger
scale, we know that their roots go deeper into the ground. They help the
trees around them. |
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140,000 hectares of old-growth forests are logged each year in British
Columbia. Source: British Columbia Government |
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NEWS READER The company that holds the logging
rights for that area is speaking out. JACK GARDNER |
TEAL JONES Over 70% of
the province’s old-growth is protected CARL SWEET |
B.C. FORESTRY ALLIANCE Forestry is a
huge contributor to our economy, 32 billion for the GDP. |
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Archive Source: CTV News |
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Tamara Meggitt They’re going
to tell us how forestry should be in British COlumbia.
You’re not from here, go home. |
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Archive Source: CHEK NEWS |
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NEW CAPTION; Forestry provides 100,000 jobs in
British Columbia. Old growth trees are the most valuable timber. Source: B.C. Council of Forestry
Industries |
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Patrick and his wife Tina have now
been in temporary housing for over three months. They’re now in a campsite. |
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Patrick: We’re all Lytton evacuees. |
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PATRICK AND TINA AT CAMPSITE |
We're all Lytton evacuees. And so we weren’t
sure this camp ground would have nobody.
We’d hoped that the owner would allow us to stay after October 1st but they said no because I think it’ll cost him a lot
to keep the water and the septic and everything going. |
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Tina Grenier: It didn’t
have to come to this. Like I said,
even after the fire I didn’t feel homeless, I'm houseless, yes, I don’t have
a house. But I never felt homeless
because we were always together.
Patrick and I and the babies, cos we had – had each other. But after yesterday and after the
conversation about having to leave by October 1st I'm like ‘Ok’, you know, it
hit, we are homeless. |
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What about our friends? What's Kaz gonna do, what's Ellie and Erin gonna
do? |
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TO FAIRY CREEK |
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Location
caption: Fairy Creek Vancouver Island |
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The protesters are in breach of a
court injunction that prohibits interference with logging activities. |
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Overnight,
protestors have blockaded a logging road. |
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You think I can get some air. |
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DAY TIME
LOGGING BLOCKADE |
Protester: So this
is called a Lorax, and it’s a log with a hole drilled in it and an anchor at
the bottom, and my wrist is chained to the anchor. The log is covered in
nails to make it harder to chainsaw. |
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The intention is to stop the logging of the last
old-growth forests left on Vancouver Island, and some of the last left in
B.C. I mean you can see around us we’re in a cutblock
right now. And you can see across the valley what a forest should look like.
And we’ve been trying everything else you know, we’ve voted, we’ve written
letters, we’ve made phone calls, none of its worked. Something needs to be
done. |
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Loggers are now staging their own
protests. |
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This
Saturday rally at Masachi Lake was supposed to be a
peaceful sharing of information. We’re
trying to defend our livelihoods. Turn
your camera off. It’s
starting to boil over, over Fairy Creek. |
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CHEK News |
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Moved section |
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Loggers say activists threaten their safety. Activists allege police brutality. |
VANCOUVER
PROTEST |
Rainbow Eyes Let’s make
some noise for Fairy Creek. Fairy
Creek, Fairy Creek. |
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Vancouver,
City Centre |
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Police: We order
you to leave now and comply with direction from police officers. Failure to
do so will result in arrest. |
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I
myself have been arrested four times and now the judge has told me I
can’t go south of Nanaimo and I have a probation officer to keep me away from
Fairy Creek. All we want to do is protect the old growth. |
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Protestors say they won't leave Fairy Creek until logging of old
forests ends. Logging company Teal Jones says it will donate timber for 50 new homes
in Lytton. |
TO LYTTON |
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PATRICK
BUYING RV |
Patrick Michell: Okay, this
is all the first time Ed, I've never done this before, just so you know. |
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I've relied on humour and
hard work all my life. |
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Oops. [LAUGHS] Steps in an RV. |
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I took
pride as a man and as a husband and as a father and a grandfather of meeting
the needs of my family. |
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It's
expanding. |
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This is the
next step in the transition back to home. |
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Talk about
decadence, my bedroom slides in and out of the wall. |
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I usually
live pay cheque to pay cheque. |
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This is a
thousand dollars a month, so 15 years to pay this off. It's not what we wanted but we’ll be
okay. |
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PATRICK
BACK IN LYTTON |
My sense of
place went up in a puff of smoke on June 30th. I’m gonna rebuild
that sense of place. |
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So we're
building a home for not just my wife and I today, but for my great
grandchildren who I've yet to see. |
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My plan was
to move from the campsite when they have the power and water hooked up, I'm
hoping that I'll be able to put my RV right here. And spend the next couple years rebuilding
my home. |
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It’s really hard in my heart knowing that everything we’re
experiencing was the result of our action. 17:27:36 if you continue to take too
many trees there is going to become a reckoning, We can
elect people who have the courage to say no, I’m not going to continue the
status quo. |
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We need to
leave the fossil fuels in the ground.
We need to invest in homes that are designed to be cool in the summer,
stay warm in the winter. I’m not scared of what’s coming. At
the moment the sun is setting on Lytton, but tomorrow the sun will
rise on Lytton. |
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