The Kenney Dam is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Nechako River in northwestern British Columbia, built in the early 1950s. The impoundment of water behind the dam forms the Nechako Reservoir,[1] which is also commonly known as the Ootsa Lake Reservoir. The dam was constructed to power an aluminum smelter in Kitimat, British Columbia by Alcan (now Rio Tinto Alcan), although in the late 1980s the company increased their economic activity by selling excess electricity across North America.[2]: 128 The development of the dam caused various environmental problems along with the displacement of the Cheslatta T'En First Nation, whose traditional land was flooded.[3]
^"Nechako Reservoir". BC Geographical Names.
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^"Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples", RCAP, archived from the original on 25 November 2003, retrieved 30 March 2012
The KenneyDam is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Nechako River in northwestern British Columbia, built in the early 1950s. The impoundment of water...
Cheslatta Lake and the smaller Murray Lake it joins, prior to the flooding by KenneyDam construction, "were quite productive at all trophic levels including fish...
projects of the 20th century. The project required not only building the KenneyDam to reverse the Nechako River, but also boring a 16 km (10 mi) tunnel under...
many dams to build up a large volume before operation can begin. For this type of reservoir only a small portion of the water held behind the dam is useful...
(Tsetl'adak Bunk'ut - ″Peak Rock Lake″) flooded due to the construction of the KenneyDam. which created Nechako Reservoir, in 1952. Most members now live on a...
was made possible by constructing the largest rockfill dam in the world at the time, the KenneyDam on the east side of the Nechako reservoir, some 193 km...
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hydroelectric reservoir in British Columbia, Canada that was formed by the KenneyDam making a diversion of the Nechako River through a 16-km intake tunnel...
Columbia. It flows through the Nechako Plateau. Before the construction of KenneyDam in the early 1950s the Cheslatta was a minor tributary of the Nechako...
negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the KenneyDam. Coalition government collapsed when Conservatives left to form the Official...
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negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the KenneyDam, the first major hydroelectric project in the province. The government...
The KenneyDam on the Nechako River was named after him. Normandin, A L (1940). Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1940. "Edward Tourtellotte Kenney fonds"...
the Nechako at the foot of the Nechako Canyon via Cheslatta Falls, near KenneyDam and the Nechako Reservoir. The expedition of Alexander MacKenzie went...
continent's most productive salmon fisheries. Kemano, British Columbia KenneyDam Moran (disambiguation) Adjusted for inflation from a figure of $500 million...
the sites. Between 1951 and 1954, 6,000 construction workers built the KenneyDam, tunnel, powerhouse, transmission line, smelter, and townsite. There remains...
trade, travel and communication line, until the construction of the Alcan KenneyDam in 1952 caused flooding of the Cheslatta River and Cheslatta Lake, forcing...
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away is Cheslatta Falls at the mouth of the Cheslatta River, and the KenneyDam. The Nechako region is the lowest-populated region in British Columbia...
to support a large aluminum smelter. To power the smelter Alcan built KenneyDam on the Nechako River, a 16 km (10 mi) tunnel to the Kemano Generating...
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Asa White Kenney Billings, the American hydroelectric engineer who was instrumental in building it. The Portuguese word represa also means "dam". The reservoir...
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