The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 Scrapping B.C.’s Site C dam could lead to $116 million in savings every year: energy economist https://thenarwhal.ca/scrapping-bc-site-c-dam-save-116-million-economist/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:02:55 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=22947 Serious geotechnical issues and the project's escalating cost make the dam uneconomical, according to two new reports that call for the newly elected government to cancel it immediately Sarah Cox News B.C. B.C. election 2020 BC Hydro clean energy Site C dam water Joining Nweeia in the research effort are Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, the founder and CEO of the Ugandan nonprofit, Conservation Through Public Health, and Harris Lewin, a professor at the University of California, Davis. Lewin served as lead author of an August publication from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that identified several species that could be at higher risk of infection because SARS-CoV-2 can bind more easily to certain receptors they possess.