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BC Hydro says it wants 3,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of new clean power. Alaska Hydro says it can deliver 484 GWh – about 16 per cent of the new power needs – with a small hydro-electric dam on More Creek.
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Located on the legendary Pacific Ring of Fire, British Columbia sits at the convergence of the Cascadia subduction zone. Measuring 1,000 kilometres in length, it stretches from Vancouver Island all the way down to northern California.
A commentary author writes: "Transboundary rivers ... are threatened by the more than 30 B.C. gold mines in some phase of development."
Two years ago this fall, I testified at a Wrangell Borough Assembly meeting in support of yet another resolution calling on the U.S. federal government to be firm with British Columbia and Canada in protecting the Stikine River, as well as the Taku and Unuk rivers. These transboundary rivers, the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska, are threatened by the more than 30 B.C. gold mines in some phase of development just over the border. Over a dozen of them are located within the Stikine-Iskut watershed.