March24,2016
At lunchtime, I walked a few blocks of downtown area, I found something interesting occurred in front of the BC hydro headquarters.
some young girls are practicing hunger strike ! At least three tents have been set up in front of the building, one girl who asked my signature for support told me they had been doing these over 12 days! ---------from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
for what? here is the reason: BC Hydro currently have a plan to build up
Site C Dam which would cost $8.8 billion.
BC citizens will pay for this. BC Hydro has already confirmed rate increases between 2014-2018 of 28% and it is anticipated that cumulatively, rate increases over the next 10 years will be about 45% without Site C. If Site C is built, BC Hydro intends to increase rates even further after the dam is operational, to recover the costs of the new dam. BC Supreme Court granted an injunction against protesters at the Rocky Mountain Fort camp, at the request of BC Hydro. The camp was dismantled and protesters flocked to the BC hydro's downtown headquarters to continue demonstrating!
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