Wednesday, August 24, 2016

OVER 200 LEADING SCHOLARS CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO SUSPEND SITE C DAM

The Royal Society of Canada
                      
An engineer's "wet dream" of another, useless mega-project.  
A BC Hydro image.

A group of leading Canadian scholars has raised serious concerns regarding the process used to approve the mega dam called Site C. The Royal Society of Canada has taken the unusual step of issuing a separate supporting letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 
To read the letter, please click here.

1 comment:

Larry Powell said...

An engineer's wet dream & disgraceful reminder of Trudeau's hypocritical betrayal of his promise to forge a new relationship with indigenous people. Hydro has bullied and evicted First Nations people living in that territory to build another monstrosity - a 7 billion dollar boondoggle in the "wilderness," - already marred by oil and gas development. This is the 3rd dam on the Peace. Just leave the f...... river alone!

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