Oh great, because a bunch of people down south don't want a power project in thier backyard we get to have it in ours. Flood the remaining good farm land in the North Peace, do economic harm to Hudson's Hope and all because some people down south didn't want it near them. Another case of the south out of touch with the North.

The bigger question is. Whos going to build it BC Hydro or an American company for thier use.

I was concerned when the Americans were pushing for the "Canoe" mountain water siphon off of the North Thompson River. (In the spring only! Yeah right) After that I contacted my Federal MLA in Ottawa with my concerns over that and other water issues. He sent me an inch worth of water plans that are in print for B.C's water. It was scarey perusing that material.

I think that the provincial gov't should not sell out any more of our resource based industries or stop the possiblity of being sold just like "Teresan". The Americans like it or not think of "Canada" as their own resource pool. The Americans in time will over run us when they need water bad enough, not because of oil, gas, electicity or wood needs.

We already know that they are dishonest business makers as they haven't paid for allot of "Electricity" they robbed from us or the wood "Tariffs" they have ripped from our "Companies".

They want Nafta to work their way only and care not for the "World Trade Courts" that continuously rule against their poor trade practices.

Site "C" will give us periodic cash inflow to the region for a time while the project is being built, then after that the power will go south and we will not reap the benefits that the Site "C" area will have sacrificed.

These are trying times, when will it ever stop?

I remember my dad telling me many years ago that the people in the north were guaranteed to get cheap power in compensation for the the loss of land base to support forestry jobs when the Williston Dam was built. The government would loss the taxes we would have generated and we would loss the wages, so it was a trade off, and everyone went for it. But the NDP didn't like it and moved the Hydro rates into cabinet. Then the NDP taxed the water with a one billion dollar water use tax, BC Hydro added it to our bill, and Hydro has been going up ever since. We can't make revenue from the flooded land, but the government still wants the taxes as if we could still use it! Water taxes on the Hydro bill should be based on the distance the user is from the flooded land, otherwise why in the world would we want our land base flooded?
Even if the government agreed to compensate the north, the next government might be elected by union thugs and social workers and we would be "equalized", then up goes the Hyro bill, again.