Dear Editor:
Re: NDP Will Be Challenged to Meet Expectations, Aug. 23 View from the Ledge opinion column.
In response to Keith Baldrey’s recent piece, I’d like to comment on the Site C power dam situation.
Yes, the dam will saddle BC Hydro with billions in debt, a debt that we as taxpayers must take responsibility for.
And this debt might be more palatable if we needed the electricity. But we don’t.
And by the time we might need it, the world and hopefully our province, will have turned their sites to solar, wind and geothermal energy – energy that is cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
This project should be stopped, the land repaired and the workforce deployed to building schools, hospitals and housing, or maintaining and repairing the infrastructure (roads, bridges, power lines, sewer and water pipes, forests) that was left to fall apart under the previous government.
Linda Forsythe
Burnaby
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