Upper Pitt River hydro projects not dead
COMMENT: Run of River Power Inc. had its hopes dashed by BC's Environment Minister Barry Penner earlier this year when he stated that the Upper Pitt Projects would not be allowed to proceed with the proposed transmission line routing through Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. See article here: B.C. government rejects Pitt power project
But it didn't stop the company. In October, it submitted an application to the government for an alternative route through the park to build a transmission line to the Cheekye Substation near Squamish. And it has pitched the project into BC Hydro's Clean Power Call.
Third Quarter Report
Run of River Power
25-Nov-2008
Upper Pitt River Power Project
The Company continued feasibility and permitting work in the Upper Pitt
River and, subsequent to the end of the third quarter, submitted a proposal
for the Upper Pitt River Power Project into BC Hydro's 2008 Clean Power Call.
The cluster includes seven low impact run-of-river hydropower projects on
eight tributaries of the Upper Pitt River, located at the North end of Pitt
Lake approximately 35 km from Pitt Meadows, BC.
The Upper Pitt River Power Project will have a combined installed plant
capacity of 155 MW and will connect to BC Hydro's grid at the Cheekye
Substation, located just north of Squamish BC. A Feasibility Interconnection
Study Application for connection to the grid was submitted to the British
Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC) on October 17, 2008 that incorporates an alternate transmission route from the original proposed for this project.