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Premier John Horgan says British Columbia's $8.8 billion Site C dam project could face ongoing legal battles over Indigenous rights and may eventually end up in the Supreme Court of Canada.

A preliminary report raises more questions than answers about the future of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam.

There was one more article that caught my eye in the Alaska Highway News – and it really was the pièce de résistance.

"Both the former government and BC Hydro’s Board abdicated their fiduciary responsibility to the rate payers and tax payers of this province," writes Marc Eliesen in his report on the Site C Dam.

The B.C. NDP government has asked the province’s utilities commission to review the $8.8−billion Site C dam, throwing into doubt one of former premier Christy Clark’s major accomplishments.

Canada's top court won't hear an appeal from two B.C. First Nations worried that construction of an $8.8-billion hydro-electric dam would violate their constitutionally protected treaty rights.

B.C. political leaders exchanged duelling letters over the future of the Site C dam project on June 6, 2017, with Premier Christy Clark arguing that delays will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Murphy Oil has been fined $172,500 after the Alberta Energy Regulator concluded the Arkansas−based company did not maintain a pipeline that leaked oil for 45 days before it was discovered.

A small green power company says it has closed a deal to buy a half−built oilsands power plant in northern Alberta halted 16 months ago by international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell.

DeSmog Canada has learned that the office of B.C. Premier Christy Clark was involved in an attempt to discredit reporting on its $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam.

The Crown corporation has had enough of the camped-out protesters, whom they claim pose health and safety risks to BC Hydro employees.

The hydroelectric project's protesters have been camped out near Fort St. John since last December, which could reportedly cost BC Hydro millions of dollars.