The Peace Valley Landowner Association has served a petition for judicial review asking the B.C. Supreme Court to quash the provincial environmental assessment certificated granted Oct. 14 to BC Hydro to build the $8 billion Site C dam.
Lawyer Maegan Giltrow says that in granting the environmental certificate, the ministers of Environment and of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations failed to consider the joint review panel’s assessment of the economics of the Site C project.
“Not only was the joint review panel required by law to make recommendations about cost … but the ministers were bound by law (Read more…)