The secretive role of SNC-Lavalin in the Site C dam | The Narwhal
SNC-Lavalin has received approximately $120 million in direct award Site C dam
contracts, obscuring the embattled engineering firm’s role in building
the largest publicly funded infrastructure project in B.C.’s history.
contracts, obscuring the embattled engineering firm’s role in building
the largest publicly funded infrastructure project in B.C.’s history.
For one
contract, SNC-Lavalin provided BC Hydro with a “shadow estimate”
— number-crunching to confirm BC Hydro’s figure — for its forecasted
$8.335 billion price tag for the dam, The Narwhal found after reviewing Site C documents.
The estimate proved to be wildly wrong, missing the mark by $2 billion.
But that hasn’t stopped SNC-Lavalin — which has been banned
from World Bank infrastructure contracts for 10 years following
allegations of bribery schemes in Bangladesh — from reaping years of
no-bid work on the Site C dam for engineering design services.