The journalist Sarah Cox discusses her new book, Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and A Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro (On Point Press, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and A Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro by Sarah Cox (On Point Press, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Breaching the Peace

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

One of the more anticipated books of the season is the new one from the award-winning journalist Sarah Cox. Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and A Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro is already getting a lot of attention, as it’s a frank, often astonishing look at the history of this megaproject, the largest and costliest in the history of British Columbia. Ms. Cox tells the personal experiences of expropriated farmers such as Ken and Arlene Boon, and First Nations leaders such as Roland Willson. She looks at BC Hydro and how it’s pushed this project. She looks at the projects champions, as well as the governments involved, the previous Liberal governments of Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark, as well as the current NDP government headed by John Horgan. It’s a timely book as we’re confronting climate change, and urgently thinking about energy and resource extraction not just with Site C, but with pipelines and LNG. Sarah Cox is a journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia, who writes about energy and the environment. This new book is published by On Point Press, a trade imprint of UBC Press. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Sarah Cox; Ms. Cox, good morning. [This interview was taped 02 May 2018.]

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