A couple of counter points, John.
Water storage and flood control:
I understand that those functions are and will be addressed by the long existing W.A.C Bennett Dam.
Site "C" is to be a run of the river dam, and will not add much value in the way of water storage and flood control.
"irrigation" The net impact on farmland will probably be negative. A lot of farm land will be flooded.
Nothing new here for the B.C. N.D.P. party.
In years past:
A pulp mill was closing as it was becoming uneconomical to operate.
The NDP formed a commission to investigate.
The answer was simple arithmetic:
Compare unit costs with fixed costs and it was apparent that doubling the size of the mill would allow the mill to again be economical to operate.
Spend millions of government money to rebuild and expand the mill.
Oh, Oh. The real reason that the mill was uneconomical was that it had used up all of the close in pulp-wood, and increased haul distances had rendered the mill uneconomical.
With the doubled demand for pulpwood, the unanticipated consequence was that very shortly the haul distances increased and the mill again became uneconomical.
Again the same political party:
Wiki said:
The fast ferry scandal was a political affair in the late 1990s relating to the construction of three fast ferries by the Canadian provincial crown corporation BC Ferries under direction of the Executive Council of British Columbia, headed at the time by Premier Glen Clark of the New Democratic Party.
In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss.
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When the fast ferries were sold, the provincial budget declared a $52 million loss.
Bill
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Ohm's law
Not just a good idea;
It's the LAW!
