Peace Valley Environment Association
PO Box 6062 V1J 4H6 Fort Saint John, BC, Canada

We are grateful to everyone who attended and shared on the May 12th film screening of Valley of the Southern North. While not everyone on the call had the opp...ortunity to share their stories and poems, we all heard how this life-giving river had changed the course of more than a few lives. We are so appreciative of donors who together raised a whopping $7900 for West Moberly First Nation’s legal challenge. Now in the evidence gathering stage, the trial preparations got a big boost when the Court recently ordered documents and reports which had been shrouded in secrecy to be released to West Moberly.

The outlet is probably best known in this province for breaking the news that senior government officials knew the Site C dam was over budget and behind schedule about a year before they publicly stated it. But it’s also done highly regarded work on pollution in the Elk Valley and land-based salmon farming, among many other topics. Those are the type of stories I’m personally proudest of, Gilchrist says. Stories that really complicate the narrative about what an energy transition looks like and what someone who cares about the natural world looks like.

"The announcement comes just days after the non-profit group, North American Megadams Resistance Alliance, hosted a webinar about dirty hydropower, including ...the massive GHG emissions created by hydropower in Quebec. In fact, the largest hydropower reservoir in Quebec, Caniapiscau Reservoir, is estimated to emit twice the GHG emissions compared to a coal-fired powerplant that puts out the same amount of electricity." See more

In October 2014, BC energy minister Bill Bennett assured us the $7.9 billion Site C dam budget was final, fully reviewed by specialists and reliable because it included a contingency well above prudent amounts. Nothing left to chance, uncertainty or politics because the budget numbers were developed by the world’s top experts. Days later, Liberals bumped the budget to $8.5 billion. Two months later, the budget was $8.775 billion. But BC Hydro assured us:......... Remember when the decision makers told us that less-destructive renewables were not an appropriate alternative to Site C? Check this:....

The Rolling Justice Bus passes along a little boogie to get us going. Go!

This is an excellent source of info on Site C and BC Hydros many misguided attempts to get this white elephant started.

It's Time for a Pandemic Pivot on Site C - https://mailchi.mp/6e/change-thisemail-subject-line-8015558

"But given the extent of ecological overshoot and bearing in mind that the poorest nations still need some room to develop their economies and allow the poorest billions to attain a dignified level of existence the transition will require the richest nations to downscale radically their resource and energy demands. This realisation has given rise to calls for economic degrowth. To be distinguished from recession, degrowth means a phase of planned and equitable economic ...contraction in the richest nations, eventually reaching a steady state that operates within Earth’s biophysical limits. At this point, mainstream economists will accuse degrowth advocates of misunderstanding the potential of technology, markets, and efficiency gains to decouple economic growth from environmental impact. But there is no misunderstanding here. Everyone knows that we could produce and consume more efficiently than we do today. The problem is that efficiency without sufficiency is lost. Despite decades of extraordinary technological advancement and huge efficiency improvements, the energy and resource demands of the global economy are still increasing. This is because within a growth-orientated economy, efficiency gains tend to be reinvested in more consumption and more growth, rather than in reducing impact. "

"Calder said the increased levels showing at a station downstream from Muskrat Falls, N5, are more in line with what his group at Harvard estimated, and exceed the projections made on behalf of Nalcor Energy. He said he wishes they were wrong in their predictions, but based on what he’s seen so far it doesn’t appear to be so. Nalcor and the government of Newfoundland claimed that there was no possibility for risk to people or the environment, spent years claiming up and down there was nothing to worry about, and now monitoring is coming out showing that the peak levels are still increasing and are within the range that was forecasted, he said."