Chapter Challenges NWT MLAs’ Comments on the Site C dam

March 12, 2019

In recent statements in the NWT Legislative Assembly, MLAs raising the issue of the Site C dam on the Peace River have pointed to the authority of trans-boundary water agreements and the protections they provide against the negative impacts of the dam.  These statements are as false as the ability of these agreements to protect our waters.

The NWT Chapter of the Council of Canadians continues to work with the Slave River Coalition and folks throughout Treaty 8 Territory including in the Peace River Valley to try to stop the proposed Site C dam on the British Columbia side of the Peace River. We oppose this unnecessary, destructive, and costly dam for its negative downstream impacts, its trampling of Indigenous rights and title, and threats to food sources and water.

Read the letter.