This piece originally appeared in the Times Colonist.
At a cost of $8.8 billion, the construction of the Site C dam would entail the largest outlay of taxpayer money in B.C. history.
That’s 18 times the cost of B.C.’s fast ferries, or 11 times the cost of a sewage-treatment facility for the Capital Regional District. Heck, it’s the most expensive infrastructure project currently proposed in all of Canada.
Yet a BC Hydro survey in July 2014 found only six in 10 British Columbians had even heard of the project.
Perhaps that’s because Site C, proposed for near (Read more…)