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BC Hydro expressed “serious concerns” about the timing, scope and budget of the Site C dam in an update released Friday.
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“While we are setting the timetable for the river diversion in 2020, there is uncertainty about the timing and start-up of the project,” BC Hydro CEO Chris O’Riley wrote in a letter to British Columbia. Public Utilities Commission. “This is basically due to our ability to restart and increase paints that have been stopped due to the pandemic.”
The letter accompanied the annual report at Site C for 2019 and the quarterly report covering until 31 March, which was delivered in combination in a 116-page document.
They detail the demanding situations of coVID-19 pandemic management, which saw the number of other people who were reduced by 50% in March, as well as pre-existing disorders that are already adding to the most likely delays and excess burden.
The letter also stated that until the end of 2019, the app had uncovered a challenge on the right bank of the river that would require more powerful foundations under the force plant, landfill and central spaces of the long-haul dam. “The estimated effects on prices and time will be better understood once improvement measures are selected,” O’Riley wrote.
The Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Bruce Ralston, told reporters that he was “very involved with those reports, that is, regarding uncertainties about office and time.”
Ralston noted that the government inherited the assignment of the former B.C. Liberal government and would not have initiated the allocation itself. “They said they were looking to push Site C beyond the point of no return. Well, they did.
The NDP government took the debatable resolution to continue the dam structure in December 2017, it would charge too much to cancel the project.
Ralston stated that the government was aware that the allocation presented significant pressures and burden risks, and that COVID-19 particularly outweighed the challenges.
Ralston has announced that Peter Milburn will be appointed Special Counsel, who will paint with BC Hydro and the Project Guarantee Board and advise the government. Milburn is a former Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary of the Treasury Board.
The B.C. Liberals said Site C was on time and within budget in 2017 when the government changed.
“Today’s NDP announcement is for a government that can’t handle its own mistakes,” BC Hydro spokesman Greg Kyllo said in an email statement.
“John Horgan and the NDP won a task that was on track to achieve all their goals and it was they who let this task fall behind,” he said. “Now the other people in this province are forced to pay some other revision because the NDP simply has no idea how to manage the largest allocation of blank energy in British Columbia.”
The B.C. The Green Party said in a statement that the government deserves to seriously consider the cancellation of the project.
“The PND wants to be transparent about value and make a resolution before the river diversion takes up position and we reposition the Peace River forever,” said Interim Chief Adam Olsen. “I’m afraid the government will say that Site C has passed the point of no return, while admiting that it does not know the current state of the matrix. It leaves British Columbia taxpayers at significant risk.”
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“The overall suitability of the allocation was red in December 2019, due to significant load pressures due to geotechnical instability and contractual disputes,” he said. “The geotechnical instability factor has been raised through experts for years, so this threat is no surprise.”
The third in a series of dams on the Peace River, Site C would flood an 83-kilometer-long stretch of the river to generate enough electricity to force 450,000 homes.
Site C’s budget had already been higher, particularly since the initial project proposal and was set at more than $10 billion in 2017 when the NDP will continue construction. It was due to start generating electricity in 2023 and ended in 2024.
BC Hydro’s O’Riley said the application re-evaluates the project’s budget and schedule and hopes to be able to supply more main points later in the fall.
Work is expected to increase in the summer and fall, there is still great uncertainty about the evolution of the pandemic.
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