I have shown some of the major places on the new Dam reservoir. In 3 parts- Pre filling, 2 weeks filling and 3 weeks of filling. I will try to make another video in a month. Should be a big difference.
Good job, Ron, this footage is great for future generations to understand the great changes made to the environment by such a huge project. In the future, the lake will provide its own recreational possibilities, and its own biodiversity. Thank you for documenting the changes.
Nice shots Ron! Thankyou for sharing your time and energy with us!! Now seeing this video makes me regret not driving up there to at least see the valley and be somewhere that will now be under an unfathomable amount of water! A historical event for sure!!
Just so you know, you are absolutely able to fly your drone over any part of this as long as the AIRSPACE is not restricted. The security dude has no idea what he’s talking about. Just go and fly! Your footage is great! And legal!
@@derekcox6531 thanks. I was well aware of the drone rules. He never said i could not. He said he was not sure. I have always found it easier to just leave than argue. What got me is what the heck was needing a security guard by the Halfway Bridge.
We live on the Beechwood Dam head pond in New Brunswick the water is over 50 ft deep in places, it can change levels from being full to being down or up by 8 ft over night, mostly because of incoming thunderstorms level control. NB Power did lots of river bank rip rap to prevent erosion but after 70 years the banks have slide down in many places and no maintenance to dredge it has happened in decades. Hope this dam sees better maintenance.
The security guard is wrong. As long as the airspace isnt restricted for helicopters or planes....drone away. Historical footage. Keep up the good work.
I can't believe that they didn't clear all the trees in the flood area. Years from now, they'll keep popping up and plugging the dam gates and the overflows.
Having watched the ex CEO of Google it would seem his view is the energy from Canadian Dams is going to used for Server farms, not electric cars. He was implying that they would buy electricity from Canadian Dams, while I was thinking it takes decades to have a dam approval and he is nuts.
sadly it is technically more efficient then ICE cars, hybrids are the best option for efficiency and reliability. they can also act as a back up generator! All the eco friendly BS is to justify cost... more scamming people to fix the world. in the end its about cost to the user and maker. the environmental aspect is just another marketing gimmick. if companies gave a damn things would break so much.
What a travesty not clearing out the wood before filling. Wait til they get fires on that debris. It will happen. Look at Kinbasket lake by Valemount that did the exact same thing. A nightmare.
Must be a giant faucet up there if you can fill up that reservoir like that in only 3 weeks, who knew?!? If you could think of 3 risks associated with flying drones in that neck of the woods, what would they be? I'll give you some hints all related to food and drink. Perogies, Chow Mein, Vodka
I understand your point but he’s just providing good visuals of a massive project that many people in western Canada already know of, but for some reason this project has been kind of kept low profile, even the filling of the reservoir, probably because of potential public protest. Either way the title says enough for you to do a simple search and watch plenty of videos explaining what the site C dam is. His video is not to educate you, it is for you to appreciate the scale of water and its historical change on the landscape.
Nothing like destroying good old mother nature. Oh well maybe it will come in handy for putting out forest fires, and maybe ducks and geese will use it possibly other wildlife as well.
It’s not destroying Mother Nature,it’s changing one part of that area. Let’s be real,when ‘Mother Nature’ has had enough of humanity,she will shake us off like a dog shakes off a bad case of fleas.
Thanks for sharing. They never cleaned out the trees and debris before flooding. It's a disgusting dirty debris reservoir. It will be years if ever to be safe for boating. I think it's a terrible waste of land and an environmental nightmare. 😢😡
@@terrymerwin9651 I don't know about being a waste of land, that is a personal opinion. There was a few nice flats that were good farm land, but mostly hillside and bushland that wasn't being farmed and wasn't suitable to be farmed. One would have to weigh the benefits of the need for power against the need for farm land and wildlife habitat, again, that's a personal opinion. He is right about the trash in the new lake though, it's the same thing they did with the WAC Bennet Dam they made upstream 55 years ago. Thousands of acres of brush and timber left to be flooded and left to float up to the surface for over 20 years.
@@bustedfordwe need opposition to these projects to keep the planners and developers in check. We need to have balance between progress in fulfilling our needs and safe methods of achieving those objectives
Thanks, $19Bn of debt and, massive destruction, today you can use floating 18 megawatt wind turbines that are usable on the BC Pacific coast shelf, couple them with the gigawatt lithium battery farms already deployed around the world. The sick joke is the LNG plants, the very reason for Sight C are located on the coast. No bridges, no massive grid pylons, no destruction. Probably would have cost under a billion too.
