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BCTV News Hour Access - BC Hydro and the Revelstoke Dam 1976
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An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast during the weekend news hour show in September 1976. The piece explores the role of crown corporation BC Hydro and Power Authority and resistance from residents of Revelstoke, BC to BC Hydro’s application under the Water Act to dam the Columbia River three miles upstream from the town to create the Revelstoke Dam at Dallas Creek, down stream from Mica Dam (ultimately was constructed between 1978-83). Local citizen groups opposed and organized against the dam project, appearing at public hearings and beyond to ask about the potential for catastrophic landslides endangering Revelstoke, disputing conclusions of scientific and geologic studies presented by BC Hydro and their claims of urgency to get dam online by 1982. Community members also expressed concern for rising property prices, lack of a plan to protect spawning fish, clean up the job site once construction was completed, and how the temporary boom of the dam building and influx of transient workers would negatively impact community life. Discussed and interviewed in the piece: Mica Dam; town of Revelstoke; proposed R…
Directors & creators
Margit Nance for BCTV
Subjects
Revelstoke Dam, BC Hydro, Margit Nance
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