The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency decided Monday not to take further enforcement action against B.C. Hydro for sediment problems last year at the $9-billion Site C dam project.
Nicolas Courville, the agency’s senior enforcement officer, said in a letter to Hydro that he believes the provincial Crown corporation has taken the necessary steps to ensure that “erosion and sediment control contingency supplies” are stocked at three sites — the Moberly River construction bridge, the right bank drainage tunnel, and the right bank coffer dam.
Hydro had faced the prospect of a federal order and summary fines of up to $200,000 on first offence and $400,000 on subsequent offences if the environmental problems had remained unaddressed at the construction site on the Peace River near Fort St. John.
Larry Pynn – Vancouver Sun – January 9, 2017.
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