Joint Agreement Issued For Site C Project
Monday, February 13, 2012 @ 4:05 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The Honourable Peter Kent, federal Minister of the Environment and the Honourable Terry Lake, British Columbia Minister of the Environment, announced today that a Joint Agreement has been signed for the co-operative environmental assessment, including a review by a joint panel, of the Site C Clean Energy Project in British Columbia.
The final agreement specifies the process for conducting the review, outlines the joint review panel terms of reference and identifies the timelines associated with key steps of the co-operative process.
Following a 30-day public consultation period held in October 2011, comments received by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office were considered, and the agreement was finalized.
The next steps in the review process include public consultation on the draft guidelines for the environmental impact statement (EIS) to be held in the spring of 2012. The guidelines provide direction to the proponent and identify the information that will be required in the EIS.
BC Hydro and Power Authority proposes to construct and operate a dam and 1,100-megawatt hydroelectric generating station on the Peace River in northeastern B.C. The proposed project would be the third in a series of dams on the B.C. portion of the Peace River. The project components are an earthfill dam 1,050 metres long and 60 metres high, an 1,100-megawatt generating station and associated structures, an 83-km long reservoir, realignment of four sections of Highway 29 and two 77-km transmission lines along an existing transmission line right-of-way connecting Site C to the existing provincial power grid.
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Wow…I sure feel a lot better knowing Peter Kent and Terry Lake are on the job!
BC gutted our environmental assessment act so everything is rubber stamped now Kent and Harper are doing the same to the federal assessment so another rubber stamp Nothing is safe from these Radical right wing governments!
I hate to stir the pot …. (well not really .. LOL), but should the United Nations also be starting to do environmental assessments which are large enough to have even a small impact on the world’s environment.
When they get finished with Site C, they could then do a retroactive look at the oil sands, especially in light of increasing capacity to move product.
Gus I am not sure that is sarcasm or not, anyhow are you sure you would want the UN involved?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/09/ipccs-pachauris-voodo-science-claim-comes-full-circle/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/
The only way to produce energy we need for the future is nuclear. Hey France’s electrical generation is 80% nuclear and China has 24 plants under construction. Even the US has approved the building of two nuclear plants, the first since 78.
Big dams ruin thousands of acres of land & habitat, and forever change the geologic substrate under and around the reservoir.
Coal, natural gas, and bio mass fired power plants emit pollutants, must have the fuel delivered to them by some means on a constant basis, and rely on a probably finite source.
Nuclear plants are fine, and relatively clean, provided there will never be an accident, then you have the spent fuel rods to tuck away for some future generation of people to deal with.
Wind is fickle, here today, gone tomorrow, is ugly as hell and tough on birds.
Solar may be the best, but is only feasible on a large scale in certain areas of the world.
Seems like mankind, or more properly Big Business & government have to choose the most feasible solution and in B.C. it is hydro electric.
Too bad that greed has supplanted the power company that was set up for the benefit of British Columbians.
metalman.
Supply, demand; supply, demand….hmmm…
How about reducing demand rather than increasing supply.
I got it, lets all leave the province.
Except for you metalman. You can stay and tend the fires.
I will turn the lights out.
Lies, damn lies and statistics..
Seamutt here is one for you.
three quarters of the french population polled wants to withdraw for nuclear power as an energy source in their country…
hmmmm……..
Germany is decommissioning all of thier remaining nuclear plants within 10 years. After the Japanese disaster showed the world you can’t think of everything when it comes to nuclear safety and the consequences are so severe, some of the traditional proponents of nuclear are rethinking if they want it or not.
Keep BC a nuclear free zone, forever.
Welcome to BC – No Site C, no nuclear, no pipelines… did I forget anything?
Just what is Germany going to use for power, they did not think that one out very well. They are already stressing their neighbors to back up their goofy wind generators. It is just a knee jerk political reaction.
New generation of nuclear power will have passive shut down capabilities, no external power or human intervention needed.
Runner46 if true, I would like to see a link, what is the alternative.
Spent fuel takes up a relatively small area and can actually be used as fuel themselves.
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