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The Site C project, officially the Peace River Site C Hydro Project is a proposed dam and hydroelectric generating facility on the Peace River in Northern British Columbia. It has been examined several times over the past few decades, as of 2009, stage two of a five-stage development process has been completed.

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The Site C dam is BC Hydro's proposed large hydro dam intended to finish the troika of hydrodams on the Peace River in BC. BC Hydro built its flagship W.A.C. Bennett Dam 21 km West of Hudson's Hope. It was completed in 1967 and began operation in 1968. Construction of a second dam near Hudson's Hope was completed in 1980, Peace Canyon, 23 km downstream of the W.A.C. Bennett dam. These were the Sites A and B. The third dam, Site C, was also proposed at the time. It was to be built some 83 km downriver of the Peace Canyon dam--approximately 7 km southwest of Fort St. John. While proposed in the 1970s, and again in 1989, only now is BC Hydro looking to expand its dam capacity on the Peace. It is estimated to cost upwards of $6.6 billion and generate approximately 900 megawatts. It is very controversial.

In order to create a reservoir for the proposed dam, it would require the flooding of approximately 5,340 hectares of land and over 100 km of major river valley, including the Peace River and its tributaries. Included in the land to be flooded would be over 7,000 acres of class one and two agricultural land, critical wildlife habitat, numerous heritage sites, and much more.

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Category:Dams in British Columbia