Energy & Environmental Policy Trends: Is the Site C Project Worth Its Growing Price Tag?

Abstract

British Columbia’s Site C dam is under scrutiny, yet again. The provincial NDP government, long sceptical about the dam (approved by a previous Liberal government) has been re-elected, the project has already been granted a budget increase and new issues are likely to increase the costs even further. Our analysis shows that completion of the dam now only makes sense if Alberta and British Columbia 1) cooperate on new interprovincial transmission and 2) set ambitious decarbonization goals.