Natural gas does already get produced here and the Libs want to export it whereupon it will get burned someplace other than BC.  Better to use it here for electricity if we ever need it and save the cost of site C.  I believe the origin of the 'need' for site C was to compress LNG electrically for export since it would have produced less local CO2 under some oddball formula for rating BC's environmental performance. Flawed thinking all around  at the outset by the BC Liberals.
I would add that there are aboriginal claims covering site C land, so given our legal evolution, I wouldn't be surprised to see a court decision require it to be decommissioned and removed long before the end of it's 100 year plus lifetime.  Small dams in the USA and Canada are already being removed to restore habitat, so please consider that a probable result for site C in a couple of decades. Remember that in 1982 when  PM Trudeau wanted Canada's constitution patriated, people said courts were conservative!

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