Originally published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems that could have caused many of them to fail.
And now, B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), which appeared to be asleep at the switch in allowing the unlicensed dams to be built in the first place, is frantically trying to figure out what to do about them after the fact.
Information about the unprecedented, unregulated dam-building spree is contained in a raft of (Read more…) that the OGC released in response to Freedom of Information requests filed by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.