Sarah Cox: Why it should be lights out for the Site C dam

As all eyes focus on the Kinder Morgan pipeline fracas, a resource project with far larger financial and environmental consequences for British Columbians is unfolding largely out of sight and out of mind: the Site C dam on the Peace River.
According to more than 200 of Canada’s leading scholars, Site C will have more significant adverse environmental effects than any project ever examined in the history of Canada’s environmental assessment act.
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