Site C: The Elephant in B.C.’s Budget

Site C white elephant

Conspicuously absent from the B.C. government’s 19-page budget speech on Tuesday was any mention of the largest publicly funded project in the province’s history.

Nor did the government devote a single word to the $10.7 billion Site C dam during last week’s Speech from the Throne, which presented the NDP’s “affordability” agenda for the coming year.

Green Party MLA Sonia Furstenau said the avoidance of Site C appears to be deliberate.

To not talk about it, as it’s moving forward, seems to be more than just an oversight,” Furstenau told DeSmog Canada.