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Originally Posted by libtard
Earth fill dam  And for that price tag |
Nothing wrong with earth fill dams as long as the resevoir storage is controlled, and isn't built on top of a fault line. There is a book written about a fictional terrorist event that takes place in BC, the book is called "the wave" (
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/8486...ristopher-hyde ) and it specificly calls out BC's earth fill dams on the Columbia as a disaster in waiting. In the novel, damage to Mica plus a landslide pushes over the dam. The novel was written before Revelstoke dam was built, and obviously before Chernobyl froze most new Nuclear plant plans.
As for BC, geothermal
http://www.cangea.ca/bc-geothermal-r...mate-maps.html , Wind and Tidal generation are still options.
But do we need it?
Realisticly, for domestic emery use, no. We still have the Columbia river treaty power generation we can call on, as an option. Right now BC just sells it for a pittance to the US.
http://blog.gov.bc.ca/columbiarivert...ty-highlights/
Building it now, the farm land value is of questionable viability (eg it's less valuable than land in Surrey) but, once it's lost, it never comes back. That was one of the huge issues with the land lost by the Columbia river treaty dams. It would almost be worth trucking the top soil to another more viable valley to create new usable farmland.
But in the end, BC's lack of farmland is a direct result of flooding a lot of it for hydroelectric capacity. Deja vu?