B.C. Taxpayers Paid Millions for Prime Farmland BC Hydro Will Flood with Site C Dam
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B.C. Taxpayers Paid Millions for the Prime Farmland BC Hydro Will Flood with Site C Dam
Over the past four decades, B.C. taxpayers have footed a multi-million dollar bill for BC Hydro to purchase prime Peace Valley farmland in anticipation of building the Site C dam.
In 2012, the latest year for which figures are available, BC Hydro owned almost 1,000 hectares of Peace Valley farmland that would be affected by Site C, an area the size of two and a half Stanley Parks. Read more.
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