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Our province is growing and so is our demand for electricity. BC Transmission Corporation (BCTC) is building to ensure British Columbians have the electricity they need today and in the future.

The Vancouver Island Transmission Reinforcement (VITR) project will ensure the 700,000 residents and businesses of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands continue to enjoy the benefits of safe, clean and reliable electricity. The VITR Project was fully energized in late December 2008.

This online source is designed to provide you and your neighbours with the facts and access to up-to-date information about this much-needed improvement to our electricity infrastructure.

FOR THE RECORD

  • "I've been following this thing for my 35 years in public health and there is no real danger. Everybody then says, 'Let's use the precautionary principle,'but ... after all these studies, nobody's been able to find anything.

    You get tired of people telling you to use the precautionary principle. People need electricity. We actually live our lives on electricity, so electricity isn't the big evil thing that people want to make it out to be."

    - Dr. John Blatherwick
    Chief Medical Health Officer - retired
    Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

  • "You can't live with electricity and not have power lines. So, yes you need the right of ways, yes, we try to protect it. They are not causing a problem."

    - Dr. John Blatherwick
    Chief Medical Health Officer - retired
    Vancouver Coastal Health Authority     Dr. John Blatherwick

DID YOU KNOW...

  • BCTC met with all owners of properties directly impacted by pole construction and access to new pole sites. Individual construction management plans and site restoration plans were developed for these owners.

  • Construction of the Tsawwassen segment was on the existing right-of-way which has been used continuously as a transmission corridor for over 50 years.



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