The Government of British Columbia has decided to proceed with
construction of the Site C Dam following its review of the BC
Utilities Commission (BCUC) Final Report. In an announcement made on December 11, 2017,
Premier John Horgan expressed the difficulty faced by the NDP
government in coming to its decision.
"At the end of the day, we've come to a conclusion
that, although Site C is not the project we would have favoured or
would have started, it must be completed."
As we
previously reported, after coming into power in 2017, the NDP
government asked the BCUC to review the project and advise cabinet
on the implications of completing, suspending or terminating the
construction of the estimated $8.3 billion Site C hydroelectric
facility on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia. The
Final Report (issued on November 1 and
discussed here) anticipated that completing the project would
cost nearly $1.7 billion more than the initially proposed
