All over the world countries are tearing out old mega-dams because they are expensive and destructive. Yet in British Columbia the government is forging ahead with the Site C hydro dam even though there’s no immediate need for the power and it means displacing farmers from their land, destroying First Nations territory, and flooding agricultural land that could feed an estimated one million people.

As Harry Swain, chair of the Site C joint review panel puts it in this video: “maybe we’ll need [the power] one day, but we’re not going to need it for decades. The provinces have a responsibility for the management of natural resources. I don’t think British Columbia has done its job. Since 2005 domestic demand for electricity in B.C. has been essentially flat. I think we’re making a very big mistake, a very expensive one.”

Construction on the $9 billion project has already begun, but the fight against the dam is far from over.

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