Thread by @Lidsville

Just attended an excellent #SiteC webinar put on by the N. American Megadam Resistance Alliance (NAMRA, @resistmegadams) - "Canada's Sinking Site C Dam" with brilliant presentations by @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell. Watch it here: facebook.com/resistmegadams… #bcpoli

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..Here's a thread by @resistmegadams on the #SiteC webinar and I'm going to add some highlights in a bit:

https://twitter.com/resistmegadams/status/1316455766669303808

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..Some highlights from today's international Zoom event on #SiteC: @sarahcox_bc noting the difference between the US & Canada/BC in terms of access to information: the US supplies info immediately; BC govt can take many months, a year, sometimes refuse entirely. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..@Norm_Farrell showing one astounding graph after another; one showing that every year, Hydro predicts a massive self-justifying surge in electricity demand; demand has been flat since 2005. Technological change reduces electricity use faster than pop'n growth increases it.

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..But the most disturbing point of all, perhaps, was in @sarahcox_bc 's comparison of the 3 current major megadam projects in Canada: #MuskratFalls, Keeyask & #SiteC: ALL 3 WERE PUSHED AHEAD ONLY BY GOV'T DISABLING THE ENERGY WATCHDOG IN EACH PROVINCE. #BCUC #bcpoli #BCexln2020

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..So much comes down to our very colonial lack of transparency. @sarahcox_bc concluded by saying if BC gov't & BC Hydro had been transparent [but we don't have transparency/anti-corruption legislation here] about #SiteC, the public would have stopped the dam long ago. #bcpoli

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell Why is Horgan's #SiteC Project Assurance Board so famously secretive {a Site C engineer is on it, too - how did that happen)? Why was the @BCUtilitiesCom sidelined by Campbell to ram #SiteC thru & why didn't Horgan restore its powers? Why is oversight never oversight in #bcpoli?

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell @BCUtilitiesCom Horgan & other BC politicians go on about UNDRIP & Reconciliation & decolonization but one way to concretely, effectively decolonize? Pass iron-clad transparency & anti-corruption legislation to erode this colonial-era secrecy. Let's see everything, every govt dealing with corps.

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell @BCUtilitiesCom We can't move toward decolonizing ourselves under a style of govt that's more reminiscent of autocratic colonial governors than a democracy. Yes, democracy is increasingly tattered all over, & many factors have frayed it, but why does the US have far more transparency than we do?

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell @BCUtilitiesCom Corporations ramming projects across Indigenous territory with the blessing of the BC govt & the assistance of a militarized RCMP - that's obviously colonial. Less obviously colonial, but still so, is the extreme lack of transparency that facilitates the above #SiteC #CGL #bcpoli

@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell @BCUtilitiesCom ..Here's a really specific transparency demand for you, @jjhorgan @bchydro @sitecproject: give us detailed info about all movement & cracks on Site C's south bank. Then release all documents of the secretive Site C Project Assurance Board from 2019 and 2020 to the public. #bcpoli