BC Creek Protection Society

By Stephen Hui, Aril 17, Georgia Straight — Terry Sonderhoff insists that run-of-river power projects like the one he hopes to build near Squamish are far from the ecological and energy-policy disasters that critics say they are. The private power developer maintains not only that his Fries Creek project would have a minimal environmental impact but also that such enterprises represent the best way to provide British Columbians with cheap, clean electricity for years to come. (more…)

Watch the documentary produced by Save Our Rivers Society: Power Play The documentary gives an excellent overview of the political and some of the environmental implications of the private energy development underway in British Columbia.

This is a video that has several interesting interviews, especially with Gwen Barlee from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, and sobering footage from the development on Ashlu Creek: http://youtube.com/watch?v=p48ra_657M4 (external link to YouTube)

Full Press Release (PDF)

For Immediate Release: August 13, 2007

Two new reports help answer questions, raise others, on the sustainability of
run-of-river hydropower

Coquitlam, BC –Watershed Watch today released two reports that expose
weaknesses in how government and industry measure, monitor, and minimize the
impacts of “green” hydropower in British Columbia. (more…)

Here is a link to a preview for the documentary that Bryan Smith was working on:

49 Megawatts

It documents the building of the Ashlu power project against local consensus under Bill 30.

Read the Official Policy of the Squamish Lillooet Regional District on Independant Power Projects.

SLRD on IPPs