Contested Knowledges in Hydroelectric Project Assessment: The Case of Canada’s Site C Project
This paper analyzes contestation over aspects of the Site C Project on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The $10.7 billion project, which is now under construction, has been vigorously debated for over 30 years. Initially proposed in the 1980s, project approval was not grante...
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ftunivtoronto:oai:localhost:1807/93778 2023-05-15T17:54:50+02:00 Contested Knowledges in Hydroelectric Project Assessment: The Case of Canada’s Site C Project Bakker, Karen Hendriks, Richard 2019-02-26 http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93778 https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030406 unknown Water 11 (3): 406 (2019) http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93778 https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030406 2019 ftunivtoronto https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030406 2020-06-17T12:23:48Z This paper analyzes contestation over aspects of the Site C Project on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The $10.7 billion project, which is now under construction, has been vigorously debated for over 30 years. Initially proposed in the 1980s, project approval was not granted following review by the BC Utilities Commission, as the need for the project was not established. In 2010, the provincial government enacted legislation to exempt the project from future review by the BC Utilities Commission; an environmental assessment was initiated in 2012 and a constrained review by the Commission was undertaken in 2017, after construction had commenced. The paper explores key examples of contested knowledge regimes within the review process, focusing on debates over cumulative effects and greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis provides technical examples of the ways in which differing societal values are deployed and co-produced within regulatory processes. Other/Unknown Material Peace River University of Toronto: Research Repository T-Space Canada British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Water 11 3 406 |
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This paper analyzes contestation over aspects of the Site C Project on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The $10.7 billion project, which is now under construction, has been vigorously debated for over 30 years. Initially proposed in the 1980s, project approval was not granted following review by the BC Utilities Commission, as the need for the project was not established. In 2010, the provincial government enacted legislation to exempt the project from future review by the BC Utilities Commission; an environmental assessment was initiated in 2012 and a constrained review by the Commission was undertaken in 2017, after construction had commenced. The paper explores key examples of contested knowledge regimes within the review process, focusing on debates over cumulative effects and greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis provides technical examples of the ways in which differing societal values are deployed and co-produced within regulatory processes. |
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Contested Knowledges in Hydroelectric Project Assessment: The Case of Canada’s Site C Project |
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