When will Christy Clark put her monstrous ego aside and admit that she has made a terrible mistake by trying to push her $9 billion plus 'White Elephant' (a.k.a. Site C Dam) past the point of no return?
For decades, BC Hydro and various governments have used the scare tactic that Site C is needed to power 450,000 homes. Doesn't it seem strange that, today, those alleged 450,000 homes are hardly ever mentioned?
They never existed, still don't, and possibly never will. The justifications for this economic and environmental disaster seem to change constantly: it's for homes, it's not for export, it is for export, it's not for industry, it is for industry, it's for jobs (apparently for Albertans and other non-locals), the list goes on.
Just over a year ago, Ms. Clark swooped into Fort St. John, dressed down in her Walmart best (are rural people not good enough to dress up for?), and, after kissing a couple of kids, transformed herself into the proverbial 'wolf in sheep's clothing', patronizing her credulous flock with a nauseating five-minute 'let us help' speech as she promised 100,000 LNG jobs for people in the north to 'fill the government treasuries' with.
Since then, I'm wondering how many in that crowd have pulled the wool out of their eyes and will finally see that giant white elephant and realize that all of us, for generations to come, will be paying for it, in many ways. Wake up B.C. Christy's legacy is everyone's expense!
Wendy Crossland,
Charlie Lake
