B.C.’s Site C dam comes on stream as new cabinet looks to secure power for AI, critical minerals

British Columbia’s new Energy Minister, Adrian Dix, says he’ll looking forward to his first tour of the Site C dam, the massive hydroelectric dam that started generating power last month without fanfare.He will be the first cabinet minister to visit the massive construction site in the province’s Peace River region in almost three years. The NDP government approved the project only because it was already partly constructed when it first formed government in 2017, and even today, the government’s website on the project references that the New Democrats believed the project should never have been built.