We’re coming close to the end of another year and as such we like to reflect back on some of our most memorable interviews from the past year.

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This first story comes from February 27th, after more than a decade, the northwest resource benefit alliance finally inked a deal with the government of BC for $250 million over five years. This was hugely significant, but many believe it’s just a start.

Prince Rupert was also celebrating early in 2024 when the received word that they would get more than $200 million to commence work on replacing 100 year old water mains under the city’s roads. Another big deal given Rupert is the Canada’s third largest port.

Micro plastics are everywhere, in our environment, our stomachs and our food. Trying to locate the source of these plastics is near to impossible, however the north coast ecology society is doing just that.

Territorial disputes have a long history in the lower Skeena, in 2024 it would appear some of those tensions spilled over. Signs along the Skeena corridor, between Rupert and Terrace, were vandalized and set ablaze in one case. Things have calmed down since, but this story sure stands out.

In August the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs put up blockades around the cranberry junction to stop LNG trucks from reaching works sites on Nisga’a lands, part of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project. The blockades were up for more than 3 months. But now the project is in limbo as it awaits finally government approval or not. Back in early September I visited the Cranberry Junction to find out what led to another pipeline conflict in Northwest, B.C.

And finally, 2024 saw one of the hottest political contests in B.C.’s history, and one of the strangest. After BC United, formally the BC Liberal Party, threw in the towel and dissolved by way of a take-over of the BC Conservatives, who then went on to create one of the largest official oppositions in BC, ever, after only having two seats in the previous legislature. It also saw the unseating of Nathan Cullen, former long-time MP of Skeena-Bulkley Valley, and now a former first-term provincial minister after losing to Sharen Hartwell, former Mayor of Telkwa with a landslide. Definitely one for the books.

We spoke with Tamara Davidson, MLA for North Coast, and now minister of environment, also the only northern BC riding left in NDP hands. As well we spoke to  Sharon Hartwell about her big win in Smithers, B.C.