During the seventies and eighties, inflation was substantial in Canada. However, BC Hydro was not a major contributor to the rising cost of living. In the 20 years to 2006, BC Hydro’s charge per kilowatt-hour to residential consumers increased at 1/3 the rate of inflation. However, when Gordon Campbell’s neoliberal
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In-Sights: Falsehood flies, truth comes limping after it
The following article was first published in February. It is still relevant today because, despite a change in government, agents of Site C beneficiaries continue to spread falsehoods trying to convince citizens that spending billions on a near worthless project is “good business.” Besides, as the vilest Writer has his
Continue readingIn-Sights: Careless or captured?
When you read or listen to resource industry advocates, especially ones masquerading as objective political pundits, compare their concerns in 2009 about burning natural gas to generate peak-demand electricity to their recent support for burning BC natural gas elsewhere in the world in the form of LNG. The following was
Continue readingIn-Sights: Liberal friends win, taxpayers lose
Regular readers know that BC has a surplus of electricity, created mainly by BC Hydro’s steadily increasing purchases of private power, even though domestic consumption has been flat since 2005. Export markets are unprofitable and that situation has continued for years. Proof is offered by BC selling Columbia River electricity
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Dr. Eoin Finn, an expert in international business and a leading Woodfibre LNG opponent, spoke to the independent Coast Clarion and said, “The fight is nearly over.” This was a project that Christy Clark’s Liberals hoped to promote in the May election as proof their LNG strategy was not constructed
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