Dam it, thats a good idea.

looks like the access road at the bottom of the picture comes to a abrut dead end.

I think a nuclear plant in chilliwack would be a better idea….

So how come people seem not to have the same environmental concerns with the wind generators near Dawson Creek. Oh right its a green feel good bird shredder.

That access road that seems to end, is the entrance to the powerhouse.

The reservoir would require the flooding of approximately 5,340 hectares of land[1] and over 100 km of river valley along the Peace River and its tributaries.[citation needed] This would include over 3,000 hectares of wildlife habitats, heritage sites, and “Class One” and “Class Two” agricultural land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_C_dam

The Williston reservoir is an example of results for this kind of hydro development.

You decide if this is or was a good thing environmentally or not.

Round up the troops, the anti-everything crowd has another cause to rally behind.

Build it the Americans need the power. It would provide air conditionig for 450,000 homes in California. Our energy will probably be free to them.
Cheers

Jim13135, I’d prefer a dam at the mouth of the Fraser river.

Once again we will be inundated with all the **good** things this dam will do for the Peace River, and for BC.

Problem is its all Horse S..t. We have absolutely no reason to build this dam, other than Hydro wants to do so. The dam of course gives them job security for the next 20/25 years, and as mentioned above will generate electricity for the Americans.

Hydro is fully aware that they can build a natual gas plant for about $3 billion dollars, have it completed within 3/4 years and it will generate the same amount of power as site C. So why are we flooding all this land, and building a power plant at a cost of $8 Billion dollars, and will take at least 15 years to get it in place.

Thats the $64 Million dollar question.

If you beleive Hydro on this project, then you also beleive that pigs can fly.

Palopu, don’t forget the fiberals forced a carbon tax on us with the help of the likes of Andrew weaver pushing an unproven falsified adjusted science. Therefore fossil fuel, gas bad, hydro good, dam the cost even though the fiberals sell all the so called evil fossil fuels they are able.

Off topic but can anyone tell me why we pay a carbon tax but at the same time sell all the gas, oil and coal we can. Bend over.

The idea of the Carbon Tax, and such like, is to keep money in its visible form scarce in the hands of the public, seamutt. Otherwise we might not want to “work” at producing so much coal and oil and gas and everything else we produce now for export that ‘should’ make us prosperous. Our financial masters are of the opinion that “…too much prosperity isn’t good for any country.” Keeps us under the control of those who control our money, and THEY control the government. We’re about to see proof of that Federally when the Budget comes down, and after the election, Provincially, too. No matter who gets in here.

According to statscan there are approx 805,000 single detached homes in BC.
If this one fairly small dam is enough for over half of all these homes then where does all the other power go?
Hundreds of private power systems have been built across the province and some of them produce a considerable amount of power. Many industrial facilities that used to consume large amounts of power from BC Hydro are now selling lots back to Hydro. Manufacturing uses far better and more efficient equipment and lots of these plants/mills have closed. Each household is more efficient as appliances use half the electricity they used to. Natural gas is supplied to more and more homes and that should lessen electricity demand as well.

Where is all this power going and who exactly is benefitting from increasing our provincial output?

Where is all this power going and who exactly is benefiting from increasing our provincial output?

industry to support the economy, provide jobs, and donate to political parties.

Okee-Lokee, so where is the power going from this dam? That actually matters as to why it is being said we have to have this dam. In one message from government they tell us it is needed in the northeast to produce natural gas and then it is told that we need the power to be sent to the LNG Plants/terminals.

Then there is the debate whether producing electricity with natural gas is more cost effective than hydro is when new dams are needed.

Why would we dam a river on one side of the province to supply power to the LNG plants on the other side of the province when THEY could just build natural gas generation right there at the LNG plants?
Same argument for generating power using natural gas in the northeast GASPATCH.
The only way that makes sense if it is intented to subsidize the gas companies but not really tell anyone that.

So who benefits when taxpayers pay 8 BILLION dollars to build this dam? Once the ndp run the show it will be 18 billion and they will likely face the dam in the wrong direction. fascatastrophy

Forsight. Good questions???

Hydro is professional in one thing more than any other and that is hype.

Fact of the matter is, we dont need this power, but Hydro does. If you look up the subsidiary of Hydro a company called PowerEx you will see that they sell all surplus power to our American friends. This includes approx $200 Million annually in power generated from the Columbia River dam system.

This is all about exporting power to the US and funneling the money into the Provincial Governments general revenue account, so that they can spend it on various and sundry programs, to get re-elected.

Site C has nothing to do with a need for power. It has everything to do with a greed for power.

Hydro would like to see you burn candles so that the power you save can be sold to the Americans for a higher price.

Another point to support your idea to have these natual gas plants located next to where the power will be used, is the fact the Hydro loses 7% of the generated power from transmitting the power.

In addition when Hydro calculates the cost of these types of projects, they do not factor in the loss of the valuable farm land that is flooded, and therefore unable to be used ever again, or the value of the crops that would have been grown over the years.

American business and population continues to grow at a rapid pace, so they need more power.

BC on the other hand has a somewhat stagnant population, and has lost many many major industries (who used power) over the past 20 years. Anyone who thinks we are short of power is living in a dream world.

There is something way more stinky than this power being exported.