"Environmental Assessment/BC Hydro

The SCJV has voluntarily withdrawn the Schaft Creek project from the Environmental Assessment ("EA") process. The SCJV is of the opinion that keeping the EA active would not be significantly beneficial to the project at this time and there are no technical or procedural disadvantages to leaving the EA process and then re-entering at a later date. Separately, the SCJV has agreed that BC Hydro's current planning for overall transmission system upgrades would be facilitated in the shorter term by not including the specific load profile of the Schaft Creek project, which is still under evaluation. The project has therefore agreed to be removed from the interconnection queue, and it is expected that re-initiation of the load interconnection process in the future will not be an impediment to the project."

I wonder if BC Hydro was pestering them for load requirements/hookup date and they decided to remove themselves or if BC Hydro removed them as it seemed clear they are nowhere near ready to provide requirements let alone a estimated start date? With the little they are spending this year it doesn't look like any sort of real work program is going to take place other than more internal "studies". Ah well, I was hoping for a little more real news....