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Damming the Peace
The hidden costs of the Site C Dam
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s increasing energy needs. With its enormous $10 billion price tag, the dam would be the largest public works project in BC history. It would be the third dam on the Peace River, and destroy traditional unceded territory belonging to Treaty 8 First Nations.
Despite protests by Indigenous groups and landowners, several lawsuits against the government, and a call from a United Nations panel to review how the dam will affect Indigenous land, the latest water megaproject that is dividing British Columbia is going ahead.
This book presents the independent voices of citizen experts describing every important impact of the dam.
Contributors
Wendy Holm
Wendy Holm is an award-winning Canadian Professional Agrologist (now retired), columnist and author. In January of 2014, Wendy provided expert testimony to the Federal-Provincial Joint Panel on the economic impact of Site C dam on agriculture and food. Wendy was named one of the Distinguished Alumni of UBC in 2008, received two Queen’s Medals for contribution to community and was B.C. Agrologist of the Year 2000.
