We won’t stop til the dam is done

Write to your MLA and tell them to stop this dam!

Dear Paov,

Like many of you, I was devastated on Dec. 11 – just a couple of weeks before winter holidays – when BC Premier John Horgan announced that he was allowing the disastrous Site C dam to proceed.

Shameful. Short-sighted. Extremely foolish. That’s the Site C dam project.

At the Wilderness Committee, we’ve been fighting to stop that dam project since 2010. We had such high hopes that the BC government would do the right thing and cancel the dam, saving the beautiful Peace River Valley from being flooded and our public debt from being pushed to the limit. That made the decision that much harder to hear.

Waking up to 2018, I believe with all my heart that Premier Horgan’s wrong turn can be reversed – but it’s going to take an epic battle to stop the Site C dam.

We can’t stop. At stake is the homeland of several First Nations as well as multi-generational farm homes and the largest acreage of farmland ever at risk from being removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve.

We can’t afford to. By approving the Site C dam, the BC government has caved into those who wanted to get their hands on the more than $10 billion of public money that Site C construction requires. The premier has argued that BC can't afford to pay-off the $2 billion already spent on Site C and so we have to finish Site C dam with a final bill that will far surpass $10 billion – all for power we do not need and could only sell at a loss.

That’s ridiculous.

And we know we’re right. All that stinks about Site C as well as solutions to the problems we face, is all laid out in the BC Utilities Commission report (BCUC) that Premier Horgan had commissioned – and then ignored.

The premier’s stated reasons for continuing the Site C dam simply do not hold water.

What you can do. Last week the staff at the Wilderness Committee sat down with paper, pens, envelopes and stamps and wrote to the premier telling him why the decision to approve the Site C dam was wrong.

Join us in taking action to stop the Site C dam by writing your MLA now! Tell them how strongly you feel about the government’s terrible Site C dam decision and that it must be reversed.

That is just the first step. But it’s not the only one. You can also:

• Share this letter writing tool on social media and pass it on to friends and family.
• Write a letter to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and tell her to complete her review of the Site C dam project which was started in 2017 but paused when the BCUC report was commissioned.
• Attend the Site C Summit: Accountability and Action in Victoria on Jan. 26 and 27. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is the keynote speaker. If you cannot attend – we will be publishing some of the key results of the Summit, so keep watch for that and other actions you can take to Stop the Site C dam.

Sometimes when you get knocked down, it's a challenge to get back up and fight. Remember that “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” ~ John Lennon.