PVEA

Peace Valley Environment Association works to protect the Peace River Valley from Site C Dam in NE BC. Protecting farmland, wildlife, fish, heritage, ecosystems

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

What's going on at #SiteC?
@bchydro @adriandix #bcpoli @BCUtilitiesCom

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Big leak at #SiteC.

Awaiting better video of this, but you can see a leak from the penstock (intake pipe into the dam). It's -30 up there but dam should withstand that typical temp!

I'll relay comments from watchers in the area in this thread. That audio isn't mine! #bcpoli

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Finally, media reporting on BC's fracking madness. It caused a massive quake at #SiteC in 2018. Why has it taken this long to look at this?

Fracking leaks/vents methane, the most rapid of the climate-destroying gases. And the NDP back this. https://t.co/mtDrgrBRQk #bcpoli

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Here's a photo of the debris just above the #SiteC dam on September 3, held back by a boom. Was this boom deliberately let go, for whatever reason, or did it break? They spent a bunch of our money building huge concrete anchors to hold it.

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Funny how the filling of the #SiteC reservoir hasn't made the news down in S. BC. Out of sight out of mind? (And let's not imagine that these dead, spooky reservoirs are "lakes" - if you've ever seen one you know it's not a proper ecosystem like a lake) https://t.co/0M4bC3oVhv

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Broken debris boom, @bchydro @sitecproject?

Or is this much debris meant to be piled up against your earthfill dam already? How much debris is it designed to hold? #SiteC #bcpoli

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

Horgan's Folly Reservoir is filling up. It will provide power for fracking & producing LNG for other countries to destroy the planet producing GHG's instead of converting to solar, wind or geothermal. With California hit by drought, the farmland lost could feed a million people

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

More grief and horror for many in Northeast BC today as BC Hydro floods the beautiful Peace River Valley - 100 km of it - for the #SiteC dam. This is a 100-year-old farm near the Halfway River, going under. Media is nearly silent - why?
🧵 #bcpoli

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

The one exception to the eerie silence on the flooding of a 100km-long valley for the corrupt #SiteC dam is this excellent piece by @sarahcox_bc in @thenarwhalca today.

Please read it. https://t.co/hduRq2X1AV #bcpoli

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

The silence is weird, given the horror.

This week BC Hydro has begun to flood the beautiful Peace River Valley for the unnecessary #SiteC dam.

Those of us who fought this corrupt megaproject seem to be ping-ponging between dread & rage - but where is everyone else?🧵#bcpoli

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

@TechDadget Hydro likes to tell you #SiteC will produce power for 500K homes. But Christy Clarke wanted it for the #LNG & NG companies for fracking the Montenay Gas Fields & producing LNG. The #bcndp caved in to the Building Trades Unions who donated to their elections & wanted the jobs.

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

At $16 billion #SiteC is the most expensive dam in Canadian History and the most damning of any other project.

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

There you have it — the NDP old boys network that pushed the #SiteC dam through. Surprised Les McLaren wasn’t there with them. #bcpoli

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

Canada's drying rivers and dams

Wall St Journal (paywalled) https://t.co/9iU2KxuhfV #cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc #muskratfalls #NLpoli

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

We warned them.

"Canada Had Designs on Being a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

"About 70% of the country is suffering from abnormally dry or drought conditions, forcing it to start up old gas-fired power plants"

No more dams! #bcpoli #SiteC #cdnpoli

[𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] @jvipondmd]

On #worldwaterday, I want to thank the @ABWilderness for their adventure last week to the Oldman Dam, to discuss what failure looks like. Sometimes engineering can’t save us. We need nature.
Don’t clearcut the headwaters.
Don’t dam our rivers.
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[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

When the #BCNDP was elected I presented to the BCUC, that #SiteC isn't clean energy.Vast quantities of methane is given off & the carbon sink of farmland, grass & forest is destroyed & buried under water. Now science proves it. For food security & environment SiteC shouldn't open

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

"B.C. has “absolutely” been complacent in thinking about how to plan and integrate new energy sources into the grid, adding that B.C. “should anticipate that it turns to a far larger mix of resources” like wind, solar, batteries and distributed energy systems." #SiteC #bcpoli

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

"It is very concerning that we are importing this much [often fossil fuel-generated] electricity, in a province renowned for our water supply…Except this isn’t the first ‘unprecedented drought’ by far for BC Hydro."

New from Laila Yuile

#sitec #bcpoli https://t.co/LxZLcKQZbY

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

"The glory days of consistently reliable BC hydropower are gone, particularly when industry water licenses and contracted obligations impact how low reservoir levels are allowed to fall in some regions." #siteC #bcpoli

[PVEA @SavePeaceValley]

And this is an updated report on this earlier one on BC Hydro's drought and money troubles: https://t.co/P9aECMZFo5 #sitec #bpcoli

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Drought conditions are having a major impact on BC Hydro's finances & forcing it to import fossil fuel-generated electricity.

We warned it to diversify away from dams! Why #SiteC?

By former BC govt analyst/senior civil servant Richard McCandless https://t.co/qk7UewL0Hl #bcpoli