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The Burnaby, British Columbia-based utility has under way ... plan are major upgrades to the G.M. Shrum and Revelstoke dams. BC Hydro says those two dams supply about 24% and 21%, respectively ...
British Columbia's power utility is facing transformational challenges of drought, rising costs and a trade war with the ...
The British Columbia government will complete construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam, now projected to cost $8.3 billion. The government, however, will put in place a board to oversee the ...
BC Hydro says its proposed $7.9-billion Site C hydroelectric dam in northeastern British Columbia will flood agricultural land and force some landowners off their property, but overall ...
Marcie Sillman talks to Vaughn Palmer, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, about the British Columbia government's proposal to build another hydroelectric dam on the Peace River. KUOW is Seattle’s ...
British Columbia taxpayers are hanging ... Many have compared the problem-plagued Site C dam to the over-budget Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Newfoundland. Originally budgeted at $6.2 ...
The camp, which housed nearly 2,000 workers while the hydroelectric dam was being built, is reaching the end of its life as ...
British Columbia is about to open what’s likely to be the province’s last major hydroelectric dam project. The dam will increase power generation, but it’s still susceptible to an ...
VANCOUVER, Dec 16 (Reuters) - British Columbia will go ahead with building the Site C hydroelectric dam, Premier Christy Clark said on Tuesday, even as the controversial project's estimated cost ...
Miller: You noted, to go back to one of the big parts of this agreement, that 50% of the extra power generated by U.S. hydropower dams would go back in some way to British Columbia. So did British ...
BC Hydro says the 1,100 megawatt dam would help meet a forecast 40 percent increase in British Columbia's electricity needs over the next 20 years as the economy, population and liquefied natural ...