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Bute Inlet: New Video and Multimedia Page
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 08:05

Save Our Rivers Society is proud to present a new documentary by  Damien Gillis, "Rivers at Risk: Bute Inlet," featuring interviews  with local citizens fighting to protect their treasured watershed -  one of the world's top eco-tourism and sport fishing destinations - footage from recent highly-charged public meetings about the proposed  mega-project, and high-definition aerial footage of this natural  wonder on BC's Sunshine Coast.

Save Our Rivers Society urges all British Columbians to watch this  video and forward along - as it not only documents the proposal by  General Electric and Plutonic Power for the biggest private hydro  power project in Canadian history, with massive, irreparable  environmental damage for this delicate ecosystem - but also is a  summary of the whole Campbell private river power program and its  many threats to our environment, economy, democracy, and, ultimately,  sovereignty.

 

 

Watch the full 24 minute documentary here in high resolution

Or in medium resolution for slower connections

Or watch in three separate eight minute chapters:

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Also, watch this 3-min Google Earth fly-over video showing the whole  project and all its proposed transmission lines, roads, diversion  pipes, and powerstations - an amazing sense of the real impacts the  massive project would have on the landscape.  Courtesy of Watershed  Watch Salmon Society, produced by Dave Leversee.

 

 

 

A few details about the project:

Proponent:  Plutonic Hydro Inc. / General Electric would have a 60% controlling interest
Number of creeks dammed: 17
Total Annual Output: 2,980 GWh
Total Estimated Project Cost: $4 billion, making it the largest single private power project in Canada
Estimated Annual Gross Revenue: Approximately $350,000,000 - 40 year contract including indexed escalation = approx. $20 billion
Wildlife affected: grizzly bear, salmon, resident salmonids.
Power lines: 428 km
Roads: 265 km
Bridges: 100 bridges
Production: 1027MW
Total crown land grants required for all of the above: Up to 45,000 hectares

Friends of Bute Inlet


   
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