Vaughn Palmer: Site C panel dismisses some critics claims

VICTORIA — While doing serious damage to the credibility of B.C. Hydro this week, the utility commission review of Site C also raised doubts about some positions taken by critics of the controversial hydroelectric project.
The four-member panel discounted the oft-repeated claim – by activist turned cabinet minister Lana Popham among others – that the dam would flood enough land “to feed one million people in perpetuity.”
The commissioners determined that the cl