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Site "C" Move to Stage 3, Environmental Assessment

By 250 News

Monday, April 19, 2010 12:01 PM

 
Prince George, B.C.- The Site “C” dam is a go.   Premier Gordon Campbell made the announcement moments ago at the W.A.C. Bennet dam at Hudson’s Hope.
The Premier told attendees this dam will provide clean power for generations to come.
Moving to the third stage “is the stage that counts” says the Premier. He says this stage which will take about two years to complete will provide environmental assessment, First Nations and stakeholder consultation.
Campbell says the Province’s energy demands are expected to increase by 40% by 2030, 10 years after the dam is expected to be on stream “It is critically important that we start now.”
This  will be the third dam on the Peace River, with the W.A.C. Bennet dam and Peace Canyon dam already providing one third of the province’s electricity needs.  
The Premier says Site “C” will have a much smaller foot print than the W.A.C. Bennet dam and the Williston reservoir “With 5% of the impact, we will produce 30% of the power”. He referred to Site C as becoming a heritage power house that will continue to give B.C. a competitive advantage.
B.C. Hydro has been taking a serious look at the possibility of construction of Site C dam for 6 years, although the project has been on the list of possible electricity production options for many more years than that.
The Site C dam is expected to come on stream in 2020. The regulatory process expected to take two years to complete. Another year  for detailed design and engineering,  then  seven years  for construction.
The Province says 7650  construction jobs will be created, and a further 35 thousand direct and indirect jobs.

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Comment Posted by: He spoke on April 19 2010 1:40 PM
On time, on budget .... so far
Comment Posted by: He spoke on April 19 2010 2:47 PM
Some how, I don't think the water leaving the dam will be that wide at the foot of the dam.
Comment Posted by: Workingman on April 19 2010 3:32 PM
Now this is great news for everyone in the North, the process may take sometime but in the end it will be a boom for the whole province.
Comment Posted by: Loki on April 20 2010 11:47 AM
How will this be a boom for the whole province?

During construction, there will be a a few hundred, maybe thousand jobs, but not all at once, and not for the entire construction term. Plus, most of the skilled jobs will be imported, so the locals get to watch imported labour have employment while collecting pogey.

The materials will not be local other than the dirt they move, and even that will have special requirements with a foreign source. The steel will not be local. They will build a temporary concrete plant because the local one does not make the stuff they need on the dam.

The turbines and the control systems will be contracted to a major multi-national, not to some local mom and pop engineering firm.

The "excess" power will be sold to the USA, and the BC residents will get to pay higher rates for the privilege.

Tell us specifically how this will be a boom.

The sheeple have been snowed again. Keep buying what they are selling, it might be true one day.
Comment Posted by: Andyfreeze on April 20 2010 1:15 PM
That pretty much say's it Loki!
Comment Posted by: MrPG on April 20 2010 1:52 PM
"The Province says 7650 construction jobs will be created, and a further 35 thousand direct and indirect jobs."

"The sheeple have been snowed again."

Maybe, but the sheeple and the conspiracy theorists all need the power. The jobs don't hurt, either.
Comment Posted by: MrPG on April 20 2010 1:55 PM
"Keep buying what they are selling, it might be true one day."

Funny, this is the same thing I've been saying to the tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists.