Fighting for The Peace: Controversial Site C Public Hearings Few and Squeezed into Holiday Season

Stop Site C

by PVEA

It was recently announced that the Joint Review Panel responsible for reviewing Site C has completed reviewing responses to their information requests, and are swiftly moving on to the public hearing phase of the review. With few hearings scheduled close to the Christmas holidays, there are concerns that the public will not be able to participate.

The preliminary hearing schedule also does not outline sessions specifically for important areas of concern such as agriculture and human health and safety.

It’s important to let the federal and provincial governments know that you have serious concerns about Site C and want the project stopped. Please take two minutes to send a letter to B.C. Premier Christy Clark, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other politicians.

Site C is not clean or green energy. If the dam is built it will increase B.C.’s greenhouse emissions by 150,000 tonnes a year and flood prime farmland. Site C will also destroy critical habitat for at-risk species like the grizzly bear, wolverine and caribou.

Site C dam has already been turned down – twice – by the B.C. government, which said it was too risky and too costly. Electricity from Site C is not needed to power B.C. households and businesses. Residential and commercial customers in B.C. have actually reduced their power consumption since 2008. So-called “clean energy” from Site C would be used to power dirty fossil fuel industries such as fracking and Liquid Natural Gas. Yet B.C. taxpayers will end up footing the $8 billion bill at a time when B.C. Hydro is already deeply in debt.

What You Can Do

Please help stop Site C by sending a letter now!


Your letter will be sent to the following people:

Honourable John Rustad (Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation)
Honourable Adrian Dix (Leader of the Opposition)
Mr. John Horgan (Energy and Mines critic)
Honourable Peter Kent (Federal Minister of the Environment)
Mr. Nicholas Simons (Agriculture critic)
Right Honourable Stephen Harper (Prime Minister)
Honourable Rich Coleman (Minister of Natural Gas)
Honourable Mary Polak (Minister of the Environment)
Mr. Doug Donaldson (Aboriginal Relations critic)
Honourable Christy Clark (Premier)
Mr. Robin Austin (Natural Gas critic)
Honourable Bill Bennett (Minister of Energy and Mines)
Honourable Pat Pimm (Minister of Agriculture)