Site C Dam Why has the Debate Been Going on for so Long?

Could it be because the whole idea is lose, lose, REALLY LOSE for Canada?

It is because of deals like this one that Canada has the reputation of being nothing more than a warehouse for United States of the Americas owned resources; instead of taking her rightful place as The Western World’s Richest, Strongest,  and Most Powerful Economy.

The United States of the Americas mostly wants and needs desperately-- FRESH POTABLE WATER.

The government backed away from Site C in 1982 through a combination of regional opposition and new forecasts from BC Hydro saying they didn’t need the additional energy. However, because Hydro had already created plans for the dam and bought up the surrounding land, the possibility of building Site C has always existed. In the late 1980s, there was a push to build Site C with money from the California government, which was desperate for long-term stable energy sources, but that too fell through.

ARCHIVES: Site C could have gone ahead, but with Californians getting most of the power. (Original date: Jan. 22, 1987)

The United States of the Americas wants to have pipe and transmission lines built that will allow them to drain CANADIAN OWNED resources directly down into that country. As we are all PAINFULLY AWARE (SINCE THE FIRST Gulf war) the United States of the Americas is in need of petroleum products. Of course, because of their massive use of electricity (not a small part of which is used on a 48 hour a day biases, in resorts such as Las Vegas and elsewhere); they also want increasingly more electrical power. However, what they are primarily after is the world’s most valuable resource; FRESH POTABLE WATER.

The Site C dam (or "Site C Clean Energy Project") is a $8.3 billion project by BC Hydro for a large-scale earth fill hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada.[1] The site is downstream from the existing W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams. Designs call for an estimated capacity of approximately 1,100 MW and an annual output of 5,100 GWh of electricity. This will be the first large dam built in BC since 1984 and BC's fourth largest producer of electricity.

If built, it would be the third of four major dams on the Peace River that were initially proposed in the mid-twentieth century. The first project is the flagship W. A. C. Bennett Dam 19 kilometres west of Hudson's Hope. It is estimated that site C would flood 83 km of the Peace River, widening it by up to 3 times.

The dam would also cause flooding of 10 km of the Moberly and 14 km of the Halfway Rivers. Over 57,000 acres of agricultural and forested land would be impacted by Site C, including 31,528 acres of Class 1-7 agricultural land and over 17,000 acres of forested land.~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan