The Peace River flows from B.C. into Alberta, where it joins the Athabasca River in the Peace-Athabasca Delta — one of the world's largest inland freshwater deltas — to form the Slave River.

The Site C dam is the third hydroelectric facility to be built on the Peace River in B.C. More than 100 kilometres upstream, the W.A.C. Bennett Dam was built in 1968, and the Peace Canyon Dam in 1980.

At a construction cost of $16 billion, the Site C hydroelectric dam and reservoir on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia is the most expensive public infrastructure project in the ...