If you look at the map, there are rapids at Fort Smith. Back in the late seventies and early eighties, the Alberta government was planning to dam the whole river and create 2,000 megawatts.
Nancy Southern of ATCO said in a newspaper article on Friday, I believe, that they're going produce 1,000 to 1,500 megawatts, run of the river. They cannot do that; it's impossible. I think her consultants, her engineers, are giving her the wrong information. We have hired an independent consultant to look at this. If you look at what they're proposing, the run of the river would start from Dog River on the east side, and they would have to make a trench right back into Fort Smith. That is the run of the river.
That will produce only 500 megawatts at the maximum--at the maximum. To produce 1,500 or 1,000 megawatts at the Mountain Rapids, for what they call run of the reservoir, you would have to obstruct the whole river. That would mean that all our territory, all our gravesites and archaeological sites, would be under water. Hunting, trapping, fishing would be no more. This will kill the river. It's like plugging up your sewer system here in Edmonton. If we did that, we'd have a pretty smelly city in a pretty short time. That's what will happen here.