Editor:
It is scary to think that I was four years old the last time a major hydroelectric dam was built in this province.
That was back in 1984, when the Revelstoke dam was built on the Columbia River.
Nothing of significance has been added since then.
There were fewer than 3 million people living in B.C. in 1984 and more than enough power for them all.
Now, B.C.鈥檚 population is over 4.6 million and new uses for electricity pop up every day.
Unfortunately, you can only stretch an elastic band so far before it snaps, which sums up the state of B.C.鈥檚 aging hydroelectric system.
What an incredible debt of gratitude we owe to previous generations for the investments they made, that we鈥檝e all benefitted from greatly and for such an incredibly long time.
Jesse McClinton
Victoria
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