Premier Christy Clark is giving NDP leader John Horgan until Saturday to decide if he wants to stand by his demands for delays to progress on the Site C dam, saying to allow a review of the project could cost the province 600-million-dollars.
Reacting to that Joe Foy, National Campaign Director for the Wilderness Committee, says a delay could save more than it wastes.
Foy says sending the almost $9-billion project to the BC Utilities Commission for review would take about 3 months, and should have been done long before construction was allowed to start. He says doing it now may cost money, but it will be far less than building a project we don't need:
"It's prudent to do the BCUC review. It's never had a proper review. It needs one. And I think what's going to come out of that is that we are going to run, not walk away, from the Site C dam."
Foy says because he's worked on the Site C dam issue for some time he knows the province currently has a very large excess of electrical generating capacity.
He adds those now employed on Site C could be put to work on important infrastructure needs like bridges, hospitals, schools and highways.