Re: “Site C arguments rage as clock ticks,” column, Nov. 21.
All eyes in Premier John Horgan’s cabinet should be on the other coast and the inquiry into the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project.
We have the benefit of what amounts to a visit from the “Ghost of Christmas yet to come” in the study of Newfoundland and Labrador’s version of Site C. As Konrad Yakabuski wrote in Thursday’s Globe and Mail: “The inquiry … comes too late to save the province from a $12.7-billion sinkhole that will see consumers in Newfoundland pay more than 100 times for their electricity what Hydro-Québéc now pays for power from the [adjacent] Upper Churchill development.” He further describes the project as “an albatross that threatens the province’s very solvency.”
Former premier Danny Williams promised Newfoundlanders that the mega-project was such a winner, no one needed a public utilities commission review. Like former premier Christy Clark, he pledged to get it past the point of no return. Unlike Clark, he did.
B.C. still has the chance to abort Site C. Run, do not walk. Run from this looming fiscal and ecological disaster.
Elizabeth May
MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
