David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip Support Site C Opposition at Injunction Hearing

For Immediate Release

MEDIA ADVISORY

February 19th, 2016

David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip Support Site C Opposition at Injunction Hearing

VANCOUVER - David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip be in attendance to show their support for protest camp at Rocky Mountain Fort in opposition to the Site C dam. On Monday the BC Supreme Court will be hearing an injunction application from BC Hydro requesting removal of the protest camp. The camp maintains that construction of the proposed hydro dam should not proceed while legal challenges remain in the courts and opposition to the project continues to grow. Supporters have also called for a halt in all construction activity until the Auditor General has reviewed the recommendations and projections provided by BC Hydro and until it is evaluated by the BC Utilities Commission.

Site C is a proposed 60-metre high, 1,050-metre-long hydroelectric dam on the Peace River on Treaty 8 territory in northeastern British Columbia. It would create an 83-kilometre-long reservoir f  submerging 78 First Nations heritage sites, burial grounds and places of cultural and spiritual significance while also flooding approximately 5,550 hectares of agricultural land.

What: Press Scrum

When: February 22nd,  9:30 am

Where: BC Supreme Court (Hornby and Nelson entrance)

Who:

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip - Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

David Suzuki - award-winning scientist, environmentalist, broadcaster

Media Contact:

Harjap Grewal - 604 340 2455 / hgrewal@canadians.org