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Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...
Last week, some 400 years after Jumping Brook's time, the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd. followed the chief's reasoning in putting Kitimat at the center of a vast new West Coast industrial project. Alcan signed an agreement with the British Columbia government on water rights for a $500 million power development and aluminum plant in the Kitimat area...