Toxic masculinity. Pipeline protests. The dark side of clean energy. This year’s nominees for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing touch on both deeply personal issues of identity and community and hot-button public policy issues. The National Post talked to the authors in the countdown to the award, a $25,000 prize to be announced May 15.SC: Large hydro dams are a hugely expensive and destructive way to generate renewable energy.
Just how “clean” big hydro dams really are is called into question by many scientists. One study by U.S. scientists shows that reservoirs produce considerably more carbon emissions than anticipated. About 80 per cent of these emissions are in the form of methane, a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
B.C.’s Liberal government, fearful of a third rejection, changed the law in 2010 to strip the commission’s oversight of Site C. When the NDP came to power in 2017, it fulfilled an election promise to send the project to the BCUC for a fast-tracked three-month review. But, notably, it didn’t allow the BCUC to determine whether or not proceeding with Site C was in the public interest and the BCUC wasn’t given the most up-to-date financial information for the project for its review.
Two direct-award contracts worth a total of almost $11 million were given to a B.C. numbered company whose officers and directors turned out to be top executives of Petrowest, the Alberta company that went bankrupt and was dismissed from Site C’s main civil works consortium. The largest of the contracts, for $10.1 million, was awarded to the numbered company in late July 2017 — just two weeks before Petrowest was dismissed from the Site C consortium for insolvency.
SC: It’s difficult to judge. Two Treaty 8 First Nations have filed civil claims alleging the Site C dam and two previous dams on the Peace River unjustifiably infringe on their treaty rights. They lost an application for an injunction to stop work on Site C but the judge ruled that their case must be heard by 2023, prior to reservoir filling slated for 2024 — a timeline that may not be met given a patterns of schedule delays on other projects.
The stench of green bullshit in that story was extreme.
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