Mike Harcourt Joins Calls to Halt to Site C Dam – The Tyee

Former BC premier warns project would ‘severely damage BC Hydro and B.C. credit ratings.’

The Site C dam is an “economic, fiscal, environmental and aboriginal treaty rights disaster,” according to former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt.

In a letter submitted to the B.C. Utilities Commission, which is currently reviewing the $8.8-billion project, Harcourt said Site C will “severely damage BC Hydro and B.C. credit ratings” and lead to increases for ratepayers across the province.

Harcourt, who first voiced opposition against Site C in late 2016, said a recent study from Oxford University that found worldwide hydro projects see average cost overruns of 90 per cent should be a warning to B.C.

“What a coincidence both recent BC Hydro transmission lines have recently seen 90 per cent cost overruns,” Harcourt wrote to the commission.

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