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The Mica Dam is a hydroelectric dam spanning the Columbia River 135 kilometres north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, as one of three Canadian projects built under the terms of the Columbia River Treaty. Completed in 1973 under the terms of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty, the Mica powerhouse has a generating capacity of 1,805…

Bear Mountain Substation

The Dawson Creek/Chetwynd Area Transmission (DCAT) Project consists of: Construction of Sundance Lakes Substation, a new facility located off Highway 97, 19 kilometres east of Chetwynd. Sundance Lakes will be built on Crown land and will allow more electricity to be transferred to the Dawson Creek area. It will also provide support to the Chetwynd…

G.M. Schrum Generating Station at W.A.C. Bennett Dam

The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. At 183 metres (600 ft) high, it is one of the world’s highest earth fill dams. Construction of the dam began in 1961 and culminated in 1968. At the dam, the Finlay, the Parsnip and…