{"id":18205,"date":"2016-02-24T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18205"},"modified":"2016-02-24T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:35:53","slug":"site-c-is-a-climate-change-disaster-says-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18205","title":{"rendered":"Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki<\/a><\/h3>\n

‘We have to rethink everything’ says noted environmentalist. A Tyee Q&A.<\/p>\n

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David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip at a media scrum outside the B.C. Superior Court Monday morning. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Flooding valuable farmland to build the Site C dam undermines Canada’s commitment to meet international climate-change targets, environmentalist David Suzuki said outside a B.C. courtroom this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The farmland is needed to reduce B.C.’s dependence on imported foods, Suzuki said, and eliminate the huge amounts of carbon fuels needed to bring those foods here.<\/p>\n

“It seems to me crazy to put farmland in the north underwater,” he said. “We live in a food chain now in which food grows on average 3,000 kilometres from where it’s consumed. The transport of all that food is dependent on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

“Food has got to be grown much closer to where it’s going to be consumed,” he said.<\/p>\n

Instead of building dams and pipelines, Canada should “massively encourage” wind, solar and geothermal energy projects and put a stiff price on carbon emissions, he said.<\/p>\n

Suzuki joined Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, head of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, at a news conference on the steps of B.C. Supreme Court just before the latest battle over the Site C hydroelectric project began inside.<\/p>\n

BC Hydro is seeking an injunction to prevent protesters at the Rocky Mountain Fort camp from “physically interfering” with the construction of Site C. The B.C. government approved the $8.3-billion dam in late 2014.<\/p>\n

If completed, Site C would flood about 83 kilometres of the Peace River valley near Hudson’s Hope, much of it fertile land, and generate enough electricity to power 450,000 homes.<\/p>\n

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