| Site C Dam is Damned | 13 March 2015 |
Source: Wilderness Committee
The B.C. government was wrong to approve construction of the $8.8-billion Site C dam project without an independent examination of cost and need, says Swain. Some of the questions that still need to be answered, according to Swain, include the real cost and availability of alternatives, how B.C. should use its Columbia River rights, how British Columbians will react to increased electricity prices (which could decrease demand) and how the province’s liquefied natural gas industry will develop. Site C would be a hydroelectric facility on the Peace River, seven kilometres south of Fort St. John. A newly created reservoir would be about 83 kilometres long and two-to-three times wider than the current river, flooding 5,550 hectares of land. Current estimates are it would take eight years and $8.5 billion to build the facility. Farmers, ranchers and First Nations have all objected to Site C, which was rejected thirty years ago.
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