BC Creek Protection Society

MAY 24 - RIVERS AT RISK: RAFE MAIR COMES TO THE SALMON CAPITAL OF THE WORLD TO DISCUSS WITH PUBLIC AND FIRST NATIONS THE THREATS OF PRIVATE RIVER POWER TO THREE MAJOR LOCAL WATERSHEDS (more…)

The Klinaklini River, approximately 200 Km long, passes between some of the tallest and most remote peaks in the Coastal Mountain Range. With a mean annual discharge of close to 200 cubic meters per second (cms) and peak flows reaching as high as 18,000 cms the Klinaklini River is one of the largest rivers in the province. Home to large populations of threatened Grizzly Bear and Marbled Murrelet, this drainage currently encompasses some of least fragmented habitat on the Canadian West Coast. With recorded Salmon, Steelhead and Eulachon runs in the lower river found to be some of the largest in the Georgia Basin. Kleana Power Corp, a junior energy corporation without any currently successful projects, has recently proposed to develop the largest private Run-of-River generating facility in BC’s history with an average generating capacity of 280 MW and a peak capacity of 700 MW. Pristine Power Inc. quotes annual generated power to be 2400 GWh. This equals approximately to 50% of the power expected from Site C. In order to create a generating capacity this large, generating and transmission infrastructure of large proportion will be necessary. For more information visit: www.klinaklini.info

Who benefits from privatization? By Diana French - Williams Lake Tribune - October 23, 2007 Public or private. That is the question. The issue won’t go away. (more…)

The public input period for the Klinaklini River starts today (Sep 17 2007) and will last until Oct 17 2007: http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/epic/output/html/deploy/epic_document_289_24684.html The Klinaklini River is located at the head of Knight Inlet, 100 km east of Port McNeil. The Klinaklini is considered one of the Grat Canadian Rivers in a pristine wilderness setting of the Coastal Mountains around Mt. Waddington. The Klinaklini is one of the largest Rivers in the Coastal Range with a mean annual flow of 190 cubic meters per second. The proposed project is by far the biggest run-of-river project proposed so far. The project will have a peak output (during high flow at snowmelt) of 700 MW. The capacity (averaged over the year) is supposed to be 280 MW which puts the projects among the 10 biggest power projects in British Columbia. The tunnel for water diversion is proposed to be 10 m in diameter and 180 km of new transmission lines have to be build. It is difficult to grasp the scale of this development. Please take some time to learn about the project at: http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/epic/output/html/deploy/epic_project_home_289.html Under “Document Index” you will find documents that detail the project. Public input is critical for proper management of our rivers and it is up to us to provide this input. If we don’t sit down and take some time to learn about and criticize the projects these great Canadian rivers will be irreversibly changed.