Re: “Clark bets $8.7 billion on B.C. with OK for dam,” Dec. 17.
It would be easier to react enthusiastically about the Site C dam decision if we knew how governments will use the new power to build our country.
Will Site C be linked into a national power grid to give all Canadians access to this energy? Will this power grid be co-located with pipelines and rail in an energy and transportation corridor to foster growth across the mid-Canada band, and beyond to the nation? Will this corridor be the core of a cross-country, double-tracked, electrified rail system that will carry goods efficiently and people quickly, and let us phase out carbon-emitting cars, trains, planes and transport trucks? Will this new power in Vancouver be used to drive a new network of intensified subways, LRTs and electrified buses that will let the Lower Mainland become the lowest per capita consumer of carbon on the continent?
What are governments’ visions for this dam?
Peter Spurr
Saanich
