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

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.

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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.

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Whistler’s Fishy Hydro Power Plan

Upstream, another great site from north of the border, reports on a B.C. hydro project that threatens bull trout habitat.

Whistler Blackcomb has involved themselves in a controversial Run of River Power plan that has the potential to severely disrupt a threatened bull trout population in the Whistler Valley watershed.

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