Most run-of-river B.C. hydro projects can harm fish

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Dams, Environment, b.c. hydro, take me to the river

Run of river hydro projects in BC are touted as an environmentally friendly alternative to large scale hydro projects. 

What these new projects don't have in size, they make up in sheer numbers. They are making it up in intrusions into hundreds of undeveloped areas with roads, dams, pipelines, temporary construc­tion camps, and a permanent spiderwork of transmission lines.

LINK (via: Watershed Sentinal)

Now an interim study by the Pacific Salmon Foundation suggests that almost 100 percent of private run-of-river power projects studied in B.C. are located on streams where they could affect fish.

LINK (via:Vancouver Sun)

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