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Some 481 of the approximately 600 permits required for Site C “have been received and are actively being managed,” according to Hydro’s latest progress report to the B.C. Utilities Commission.
Ninety of the 120 or so permits that remain to be issued are provincial, the rest federal. Some are critical, including those needed to proceed with filling the reservoir and completing construction of the generating station.
“All future permits are anticipated to be issued in accordance with the project construction schedule,” says Hydro.
Not clear how that can be squared with Burke’s edict that government and its agencies cannot continue to “authorize activities that breach the promises included in the treaty.”