History lesson
I’ll soon be publishing my impressions of what is ahead when John Horgan forms Government, supported by 41 NDP MLAs and 3 MLAs from the BC Green Party. I’ve been…
Norman Farrell
British Columbia’s Constitution Act
Pay attention to Section 44. BC Liberals with their media friends and hired guns – the Digital Warriors – pretend the Speaker’s voting rights are limited. But, the provincial statute…
Attention BC Liberals
In 1653, with great prescience, Oliver Cromwell spoke about you in England’s House of Commons: It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this…
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.…
Circular flow of income
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…
Costing Site C Options
Another contribution from Richard McCandless, a former senior civil servant in British Columbia and a knowledgeable analyst who comments regularly on public affairs at BC Policy Perspectives. (Republished here with…
Never retreat, never retract…
BC Hydro suffers a lack of managerial competence, contempt for fiduciary responsibilities, a disregard for present day energy realities and, perhaps most important, a failure of vision. The first exists…
Clark is an illegitimate Premier
Britain’s politically conservative Telegraph newspaper says the Cabinet Manual is “the closest thing Britain has to a rule-book.” It is important here because BC’s legislature is based on the Westminster…
We moved!
In-Sightsis shifting to a more secure platform on a new server at a new home:https://in-sights.ca/You will find old content at the new location but there is a revised system for…
We moved!
In-Sights is shifting to a more secure platform on a new server at a new home: https://in-sights.ca/ You will find old content at the new location but there is a…
Comfortable
The first part of this article was written in November 2009; the addendum added April 2016.In the days when the Fraser Valley had working forests, my Grandfather was its chief…
Comfortable
The first part of this article was written in November 2009; the addendum added April 2016.In the days when the Fraser Valley had working forests, my Grandfather was its chief…
Comfortable
The first part of this article was written in November 2009; the addendum added April 2016. In the days when the Fraser Valley had working forests, my Grandfather was its…
We’re moving
In-Sightsis shifting to a more secure platform on a new server at a new home:https://in-sights.ca/You will find old content at the new location but there is a revised system for…
Careless or captured? (A 2009 repeat)
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…
Careless or captured? (A 2009 repeat)
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…
Reward without risk for worthless surplus power (2010 Repeat)
Checking up on Government British Columbia's government believes less in free enterprise than in assisted activities for approved associates. Entrepreneurs saw potential for a private power generation industry in the…
Reward without risk for worthless surplus power (2010 Repeat)
Checking up on Government British Columbia's government believes less in free enterprise than in assisted activities for approved associates. Entrepreneurs saw potential for a private power generation industry in the…
Reward without risk for worthless surplus power (2010 Repeat)
Checking up on Government British Columbia’s government believes less in free enterprise than in assisted activities for approved associates. Entrepreneurs saw potential for a private power generation industry in the…
Crime (still) in progress (a 2010 article repeated)
News item:British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency.Definition:Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s basic needs without outside help.News…