BC subsidies to gas producers: $8.6 billion, 2007-2017
Citizens of British Columbia are facilitating and subsidizing production of bitumen from Alberta tar sands. How’s that for an example of hypocrisy by a Government that claims it object to…
Norman Farrell
My new initiative
Today I announced my candidacy in the District of North Vancouver for election to SD44. The website normfarrell.ca provides details. Thanks to the many people who’ve already expressed support.
Bright and breezy days go dark
The province now won’t admit that solar power potential is huge and economical. If they did, voters would wonder why BC Hydro is borrowing $11 billion, destroying valuable farmlands and…
Climate change: money today vs survival tomorrow
Even if evidence of global warming was not overwhelming, the precautionary principle dictates a radical change in the way we conduct ourselves. Yet, our governments, banks that fear stranded assets,…
Punishment does not fit the crime
When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was following a long-established Canadian legal tradition. It dictates: Punishment need not fit…
A BC family’s 15-year struggle for justice
Despite the Moore case, the parent was forced to move their their son to a private school offering specialized instruction and supervision. The family is financially crippled by the $2,400…
No free lunch
The proliferation of plug-in stations breeds a mindset that electric vehicles are completely “green” …and they aren’t using “horsepower”. Though the overall impact of all electric vehicles is calculated to…
Meet the new boss? Nothing new here. Same old, same old boss…
Perhaps that “fantastically large broom” that BC Hydro’s boss Chris O’Riley carries around, will come in handy for these upcoming new NDP-BC Hydro reviews. It should come in handy for…
Truth
Oh, Billy. We don’t actually practice these things. We only preach them.
Premier Horgan, where were you on Mount Polley?
Compare the passage of 4 years without a charge against Mount Polley operators to the quick response when a rude 19-year-old released an adult-sized blow-up doll over West Vancouver’s Ambleside…
New ferry will carry less than 10% of its passenger capacity
The bloated management of BC Ferries is addicted to an empire-building style similar to BC Hydro. With the exception of the Denman Island cable ferry, the company chooses not to…
Disaster warning
PRESS RELEASE PO Box 90, Moberly Lake, B.C., V0C 1X0 P: 250.788.3676 F: 250.788.2948 “Extremely High Probability” of Site C Delays Expert Report in Injunction Case Contradicts Public Assurances by…
Treaty 8
Report of Commissioners for Treaty No. 8 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, 22nd September, 1899. The Honourable CLIFFORD SIFTON, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. SIR, — We have the honour to transmit…
Power from the powerful
Politically connected individuals took advantage of citizens’ desire for clean, renewable energy and the Liberals wrote contracts with “lucky firms” that bore no relationship to market prices, guaranteed massive private…
The “creeping cancer” …
It’s time to put the fear of consequence back in governance. Since it is obvious that the current checks and balances mean little or nothing, to political organizations, bent on…
Affording the “unaffordable”
Some BC politicians are not bright. Either that, or they are thoroughly dishonest. Maybe both. Liberals saw natural gas revenues drop from $11.5 billion in the five years ended March…
Keep the genie stuck in the bottle
If the feds disclose evidence at a future trial that indicates provincial neglect and dereliction in pursuing crimes associated with gambling, what happens to public trust and support for both…
Too stupid for democracy
Thanks to Richard Hughes for pointing to this video.
Horgan talks private and public power
John Horgan issued a press release that makes so damn much sense, I’m repeating it almost entirely. British Columbia urgently needs an independent and transparent examination of all private power…