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BC Hydro’s chronic racism and denial continue at the Site C dam site on the Peace River in Treaty 8 Territory. Perhaps they thought that apologizing in 2016 to indigenous people affected by the first two dams on the Peace might mitigate further damage or generate enough “cognitive dissonance” to confuse the public:
Is it not bizarre, if not utterly reprehensible, that at the same time that it opened this Apology exhibit, BC Hydro was forging ahead with its costly, destructive Site C dam project further downstream from the W.A.C. Bennett dam (1968) and the Peace Canyon dam (1980)? While also fighting First Nations in court and hitting land defenders with SLAPP-like legal actions ? How can it be sorry for what it did in 1968 and 1980, but not sorry for what it is doing downstream now ?
Like an addict, BC Hydro, aided and abetted by the BC NDP government ( whose leadership opposed Site C – inconsistently – prior to election ), just can’t seem to stop repeating its “mistakes of the past”. To make matters worse, Site C would further damage some of the best remaining land base in Treaty 8 (signed in 1899).
bill-horne.net | art by Bill Horne