Well, here we go……
Take pictures of the valley before its gone!

This is a decision that makes sense to me. Semi-green renewable electricity from a river system that already has two major dams, although I have a lot of sympathy for the people who own land in the pondage area. I hope they have been or will be fairly compensated. The next step is for everyone to lawyer up and fight over the justified or unjustified infringement of aboriginal rights in the Peace valley.
CL

I am glad that we toured highway 29 a few weeks ago; it was excellent drive that yielded a lot of great photos!

Great news for the Province to be a leader in clean renewable energy as we are blessed having a large province three times the size of Germany which is forced to burn coal for its industrial growth and people we in BC have the resource of water and in large abundance to provide safe reliable power now and for future generations.

Start construction summer of 2015? Have all legal challenges for Site C been dealt with?

Just last week the Doig River, Prophet River, West Moberly and McLeod Lake bands, (members of the Treaty 8 Tribal Association), have requested a Federal Court judge to reverse Federal approval of the Site-C dam and prevent work from starting.

Also the Peace Valley Landowners Association recently filed applications for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court and in Federal Court. They’re asking for the environmental certificates to be quashed and for the court to block any work on the project.

Unless the Judge(s) agree with the previous rulings, I don’t see construction starting in the summer. I would like it to be so, but there appears to be too many legal fish to fry yet.

This decision makes sense for the long term and the most viable alternative. We don’t want to be burning coal, natural gas or oil to produce electricity when we have the water resources to do the job.
Those opposed should realize our electricity has to come from somewhere.
As for First Nations opposition……they are opposing everything everywhere.

The natives oppose everything until they get their cut of the money then they shut up

The environmentalists for the most part are from the lower mainland and no next to nothing about the economy or politics of the North all they care about is their public image at the cost of others.

@ Dearth

your prejudice generalizations not only demonstrate your ignorance but also you lack of awareness of what is acceptable.

I agree with Derth

It will double the width of the river, hardly a Williston situation flooding valleys. The picture is the valley by the dam which will be affected the most. They have a before and after shot of the river. Driving the highway you won’t really notice a change

Slinky, your description is completely incorrect. Please do some research before posting rubbish.

One thing about Christy, she never runs short of BS.

1. We shouldn’t build unless we have to. (We don’t have to)

2. We should only build if it is affordable for the people of the Province. (Its not affordable)

3. We should choose the options that are the most reliable, the most sustainable. (Why, reliability comes with a variety of options, which we already have, Natural Gas, Wind, Thermal, etc are all sustainable)

4. We should make sure that it’s the best option for the long term. (We certainly should, because we are destroying farmland that has the ability to feed one million people)

I suspect this decision was based on the need to provide some jobs in the short term, because oil and gas are going into the tank, and this Country is heading into a recession. So build a dam to create some jobs, to make the Government look good.

1. You do realize it will take ten years. Can you predict the future?

2. Hydro is the cheapest form of power. Do a little research. Once built operating costs are very low compared to other forms of equal amounts of energy. Province’s, countries with abundant hrdro have the lowest energy cost.

3. None of the energy sources you mention are more reliable than hydyo and they are all more costly. A little googling will prove that.

4. This is the best long term option. You seem to think other forms of energy are benign for some reason. A million people, got the facts.

Some jobs, those are some job! Why do people such as you think construction related to jobs is limited? Construction workers move from one project to another. After your house was built where the workers jobless.

Oil and energy has been sinking down to $54.79/barrel, the CA dollar has hit $0.85USD and the EU is trying to declare the oil sands as dirty oil.

Could this be about about make employment for the next election period?

Plus, being that this is built during her tenure there is a good chance it will carry her name. Like the WAC Bennett was named, it would become known as CJ Clark Dam.

Maybe Christy should get the breach at MT.Polly looked after first.

Seamut. It was over 10 years ago that they first started talking about this project. So 10 years later we haven’t built the dam, and guess what. We have a surplus of power.

The Governments own commission looking into the need for this dam, could not make a case for this power in the foreseeable future.

Are you saying that I cant predict the future, but Christy Clark, Bill Bennett, and a few Ner Do Well’s at Hydro and PowerEx can. Hmmmm. Either we all can, or we all cant. Government and Hydro workers, do not have an edge on seeing into the future.

Fact of the matter is this damn is being built to supply some short term jobs, but primarily to make millions and millions of dollars profit for those people who will get the cushy contracts.

There are enough other power projects on the books that this does not need to happen other that to provide energy for LNG. This means that the BC Hydro rate payers are subsidizing the already subsidized LNG sector with electricity. This was not a decision based upon the needs of the people of BC, but was decided by people outside the province for their needs.

update:
CJ Clark CEP