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Congratulations are in order to Marilyn Baptiste of the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation in British Columbia, who recently won the prestigious $175,000 Goldman Prize for her five-year effort to prevent construction of the Prosperity gold and copper mine 600 kilometres north of Vancouver.
“I hope the Goldman award will bring world recognition to help us protect our land,” Baptiste told DeSmog Canada. “We’d like to improve our lives, but our land and water comes first.”