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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Hydro dam ideas a blast from the past

Price tags likely to be many billions each for two major projects, but early feasibility work just beginning

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VICTORIA — Energy Minister Adrian Dix reached deep into the archives at B.C. Hydro this week and dusted off two projects that had lain dormant for decades.

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The Homathko network of hydro dams, generating stations and transmission lines at the upper end of Bute Inlet was identified for development in the 1920s.

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Site E on the Peace River was identified in the same 1950s survey that picked the upstream sites for the W.A.C. Bennett,........

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