BY ANNE MORRIS
Pipeline Bullies Leave Landowners Feeling Helpless and Alone
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alarie Urquhart looks out her window to a land she loves. It’s a stunning setting not far from Valemount, B.C., a place she shares with wildlife, with a quiet serenity only nature can deliver. But the woman says the headaches
and hassles of dealing with pipeline workers and officials on her land has become exhausting. “They are bullies,” she says. “They have the government behind them and the energy board behind them…and no lawyer will take a landowner on because they will lose.”
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