Provincial Government Behaviour Stuck in Last Century

The Province of BC has been fixated on a dangerous hydro-electric project in Northern BC. Unlike most countries, either advanced or not they have not abandoned hydro technology, anchored in the 19th century. This technology that began in 1881 ran its course through the first part of the 20th century as a miracle of technology. In the latter half of the century as new more modern methods of energy were being developed, the enormous drawbacks of hydro began to emerge. The enormous destruction of the ecological systems that we depend on for food began to become more and more apparent.
Why then would the Provincial government continue to pursue this failing technology at a time when there are cheaper more reliable methods to produce electricity? Especially in a Province where its geothermal capacity could not only power the whole province and also make it a power exporter.
One only needs to look at the insanity that went on with Meager Creek.

Well MC6 being flow-tested at Meager Creek, BC/ Canada (source: Western GeoPower)

The province has been talking about operationalizing this geothermal resource since 1984.
Meagre Creek is a high potential geothermal field, that if developed as a modern binary geothermal power plant would have a very large capacity. What seems to be getting in the way of forcing a fast development of this project is a diversion of funding and emphasis to a large dam project in the peace river that will destroy an agricultural area with one of the longest growing seasons in the province.
In the interim, the province has issued yet again another lease in this area until 2037. One can only hope that this time the company developing this resource will not leave to go elsewhere where there is greater interest, like last time.
Canada is falling further and further behind the times with its continued emphasis on hydro and fossil fuels (both last centuries technologies), and are now quite out of step with the rest of the world. If Edison and Rockefeller were starting out today they would not be looking at hydro and fossil fuels they would be looking at geothermal power plans.