VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Crown utility is taking a family of ranchers in Vanderhoof, B.C., to court for allegedly blocking access to properties that BC Hydro needs to enter as it prepares for work on the $6-billion North Coast Transmission Line.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was in Terrace, B.C., last month to announce that his government would designate the transmission line a "nation-building" project.

BC Hydro filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court last week alleging that Kenneth Fawcett, Carolyn Fawcett and their daughters have wrongfully prevented the utility and its contractors from accessing properties under right-of-ways that permit crews to conduct maintenance and construction work.

The respondents own Little Valley Farms, a multi-generational, family-owned beef producer, an

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