I survived & the Pitt River

I found this lonely old post sitting in my drafts-

Hello everyone- I officially lived thru the second worst quarter of my academic career! & the morning warmed into a beautimous spring afternoon- for awhile anyway. Found myself with too many projects & not enough time & energy last quarter.

I have been listening to my CBC (Canadian Public Broadcasting) & the subject of interest today is the run-of-river (& without large reservoir) Pitt River hydroelectric proposal that sounds like just got shot down (maybe?). This would require moving the boundary of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park for a transmission line, or an amendement to the "Park Act". Sounds like 1,000 public members showed up at one meeting- largely in opposition. The place of hydroelectric dams in th interesting topic that has been on my mind lately. I wrote a paper about the Snake River dams last quarter & listened to some interesting talks at the Elwha Research Consortium meeting yesterday, including one discussing different current dam removal projects, controversial stuff but it seems that the tide of public opinion is shifting to question new dam projects & support dam removals.

Here's a link to the content of the Park Act (just cuz I was interested)-
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/P/96344_01.htm#section7