5 Search Results for Lily

Dangerous precedent: Petronas subsidiary gets free pass after building unlicensed fracking dams

Oct 22, 2018

In a decision without precedent in its 25 years of existence, British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has told Progress Energy that two massive unauthorized dams that it built will not have to undergo environmental assessments. The decision comes after the company made an audacious request to the EAO to have the two dams declared… View Article

Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams

Mar 29, 2018

By Ben Parfitt

Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated dams in northeast BC on the pretext they could not comment because of the impending election. The coordinated effort meant there was virtually no comment until months after voting day… View Article

Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued

Dec 18, 2017

By Ben Parfitt

More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems that could have caused many of them to fail. And now, BC’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), which appeared to be asleep at the switch in allowing the unlicensed dams… View Article

Drain it: Petronas subsidiary ordered to take action at two controversial fracking dams

Nov 10, 2017

By Ben Parfitt

The provincial government has ordered Progress Energy to drain virtually all of the water trapped behind two massive dams that the company built in violation of key provincial regulations. The company was told on October 31 to drain all but 10% of the water stored behind its Town and Lily dams near the Alaska Highway… View Article

A Dam Troublesome Exception: Progress Energy’s dams should not be exempted from environmental review

Oct 2, 2017

By Ben Parfitt

I sent the following letter to BC’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) in response to Progress Energy’s extraordinary request to retroactively exempt the Lily and Town dams from environmental reviews. Such reviews should have been conducted before the dams were built. Not only did those reviews not happen, but the company also failed to obtain other… View Article

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5 Search Results for Lily

Dangerous precedent: Petronas subsidiary gets free pass after building unlicensed fracking dams

Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams

Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued

Drain it: Petronas subsidiary ordered to take action at two controversial fracking dams

A Dam Troublesome Exception: Progress Energy’s dams should not be exempted from environmental review