Any word if any TFW are working on this ? Hopefully not.. With the crash in Oil and the huge layoffs there shouldnt be a shortage of qualified Canadian workers.

Site C is an awesome project and is doing wonderful things for the economy here. There is a lot of stinkin thinkin about it unfortunately, the fact that Hydro purchased the handful of tiny farms along the flood zone and has let the people live for free in them since about 1977! I have heard people say the lake will go almost to Hudson Hope, ha. In reality it barely goes to the halfway river.It will be a tiny lake that covers some swamps and willows. Plenty of room for the few moose to re-locate a couple miles. There will be upgraded roads,bridges and highways that were long overdue. I know a ton of people in this community that are very happy with the job security they are seeing for many many years to come.

Good news checkitout.

Last I heard there are not many BC workers being employed here.

I am curious how they can build when all issues have not been dealt with.
Oh I forgot, majority Liberal government doing as they feel like.

What coffee shop you hear that?

The workers on site will be just part of the deal. The city itself will have maxed out restaurants and Hotels, and that started this summer. I can’t get a room here right now. The road builders, loggers, trucks hauling gravel, concrete, asphalt etc. Not to mention the plants to back that up! Then new buildings going up everywhere to support all that. Diesel,insurance and tire sales companies, it goes on and on. I wished I had shares in Mcdonalds here! A fairly steady housing boom I’m sure. So if there are out of province people here , like so many oilpatch people when it is busy, so what?! Plenty of work for lots of different folks

“The evidence is now overwhelming. B.C.’s current energy policies, centred on the LNG export strategy and BC Hydro’s Site C, are likely to fail at great cost to taxpayers.”

Opinion: LNG dream will fail

Use B.C. natural gas to produce electricity

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/editorials/opinion+dream+will+fail/11416125/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/vaughn+palmer+modest+proposal+make+site+redundant/11422217/story.html?__lsa=94fd-84e8

(January 13, 2015)
“VICTORIA — BC Hydro has borrowed most of the billions of dollars in dividends it has been forced to pay the provincial government over the last two decades.”

BC Hydro paid most dividends using borrowed cash

Sixty per cent of $5.4 billion in dividends paid out by the Crown corporation since 1992 were borrowed, energy minister says

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Hydro+paid+most+dividends+using+borrowed+cash/10723965/story.html

checkitout– Where do you get all this info from?

It’s a really big deal that most of the people working here are from out of province.. Don’t forget that the bc taxpayers and ratepayers are paying for this.

For every out of province worker there, the rest of us will have to make up for the lost taxes to the government.

Uh 2bits, only out of province welfare bums are subsidized by the BC taxpayer. Out of province workers (their employers) pay their way here, however they do pay income tax based on the province they are from. The irony of that is it reduces the amount of equalization payments BC has to kick in to the pot to subsidize the have not’s like Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and most of the Maritimes. $17 billion paid in by BC, Alberta, Sask. and NFLD. last year.