The B.C. government for years has been preoccupied with the need for more housing and faster, cheaper construction of schools and health facilities.

You’d think the instant town created to house workers at the Site C dam project in northern B.C. could fill some of those needs, now that the project is nearing completion. But it may end up being junked because no one can figure out how to make further use of it.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of facilities were installed to house thousands of workers at the massive project. The buildings are now 10 years old, and most of them could be headed for the dump.

The issue, first reported by the Fort St. John news site energeticcity.ca, arose in the legislature this week when Conservative MLAs asked what the plan is. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said no one has expressed any interest in repurposing the facilities.

“As interested parties assess needs against the camp building and scale, all parties have determined that camp assets are not suitable for them.

“It’s a huge facility, very difficult to move.”

Dix said B.C. Hydro is open to offers and is trying to drum up interest........

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