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At $8.8 Billion (most recent budget that just jumped...) or nearly $20k per home, I wonder how many other non-polluting options could be built? Wind, solar, run-of-the-river, tidal etc. Lots of options out there. I don't know their respective costs are but I would hope that is part of the business case for this dam being built. Far less long-term costs with a dam I suspect.

Out of the 'green' options this seems like the least to me. You have to flood ridiculous amounts of farmland (a very scarce commodity in BC), build massive hydro lines to distribute then energy, potentially cause severe geological damage (didn't some recent dam projects cause earthquakes?), move residents, remove everything from flood area, piss off the natives that have unsettled land claims in the area etc.

I wonder how much of this being pushed through is really just the feed the energy requirement of LNG terminals. If that's the case, then most of their requirements will likely be met with using natural gas electric generators.