Site C project doesn’t pass ‘sniff test’

I saw the article about the Boon family forced to leave their land because of need for electricity.

About three years ago, I wrote BC Hydro suggesting that they consider using the excess coal we have in this province and use the vacated mine shafts we have in this province to sequester the effluent from the coal-fired generator power plants. I have never heard back from BC Hydro.

As a person concerned with the environment and opportunities for good paying jobs. I feel flooding this region doesn't meet the sniff test.

Trees store vast amounts of carbon and we will be removing them. Not long ago we had a hearing in the city pertaining to logging and allowable cutting.

Trees provide taxes through stumpage charges.

Once this area is flooded, it will never have trees there again. Plants and trees, through a process called photosynthesis, produce oxygen.

Water doesn't sequester carbon nor does it produce oxygen.

I am of the opinion that the Site C project carries with it more disadvantages than advantages.

Stan New

Prince George