Write Wild - Kokish River

Kwagis Power, owned by Brookfield Renewable Power and the 'Namgis First Nation, has an electricity purchase agreement with B.C. Hydro and approval from the Province of BC for this project to deliver hydro power by April 2014.

The project would still need to be approved by DFO before it can proceed.

The 10-kilometre long Kokish River is home to a rare population of wild summer-run steelhead - seagoing rainbow trout that migrate to the ocean at a young age and return to their river as salmon-sized adults one to three years later.
The private power project would divert much of the Kokish River into a pipe three metres in diameter and nine kilometres long. The entire length of the diversion is important rearing, spawning and migration habitat for summer-run steelhead, other trout, char and salmon.

If the project proceeds, there would be major, ongoing fisheries habitat impacts.

Write the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield, local MP John Duncan and DFO Senior Habitat Biologist Al Magnan and ask them not to approve this project.