Thirty-one years ago, when the Site C dam in B.C.’s Peace Valley was rejected for the first time, BC Hydro was told to investigate alternatives sources of energy, specifically geothermal energy, by the B.C. Utilities Commission.
But the Crown corporation has utterly failed to do so, according to the report of the joint review panel on the Site C project, released last month.
Ken Boon, a Peace Valley farmer whose land would be flooded by the dam, pointed this out to the panel, noting that somehow “we’re back here now 30 years later and still talking about the dam.”