Mel Arnold at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On June 12th, 2019. See this statement in context.

June 12th, 2019 / 5:15 p.m.

Conservative

Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to both of you for being here today for this certainly interesting testimony that we have heard around habitat banking and so on.

I want to refer to some testimony that we heard back in December of 2017. Dr. David Schindler stated that the Liberal Government of Canada pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change presents three scenarios for replacing fossil fuel power with 100,000 megawatts of hydroelectric power. He stated that this new capacity of hydroelectric power would require building 100 facilities the size of Muskrat Falls or Site C by 2050.

How much habitat banking would have to be amassed in order to offset the construction of 100 facilities the size of Site C or Muskrat Falls?

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