Guest post: Paying for Information and Influence
I invited Chris Alemany, a councillor for the City of Port Alberni, to write of his effort to gain information about a subject of broad public interest. It is unfortunate…
Norman Farrell
Guest post: Paying for Information and Influence
I invited Chris Alemany, a councillor for the City of Port Alberni, to write of his effort to gain information about a subject of broad public interest. It is unfortunate…
Guest post: Paying for Information and Influence
I invited Chris Alemany, a councillor for the City of Port Alberni, to write of his effort to gain information about a subject of broad public interest. It is unfortunate…
Can BC Ferry Services be trusted? UPDATED
Coastal communities have reasons to distrust the provincial ferry service and its political masters. One issue is discrimination, because people on saltwater pay onerous fares while inland ferry users enjoy…
Can BC Ferry Services be trusted? UPDATED
Coastal communities have reasons to distrust the provincial ferry service and its political masters. One issue is discrimination, because people on saltwater pay onerous fares while inland ferry users enjoy…
BC’s intended major LNG partner
Petronas LNG Decision a 'Watershed Moment' for Trudeau Liberals, Say Critics, Mychaylo Prystupa, The Tyee, March 10, 2016...On Wednesday, a letter signed by 130 Canadian and international scientists urged the…
Can BC Ferry Services be trusted?
Coastal communities have reasons to distrust the provincial ferry service and its political masters. One issue is discrimination, because people on saltwater pay onerous fares while inland ferry users enjoy…
Dots that may connect
When BC Ferries added a newly built ferry to its fleet in the 20th century, the vessel was constructed in BC shipyards. During the mid-nineties, two Spirit Class ships, currently…
BC Liberals’ special partners
Again, another contribution from an In-Sights reader who is closely following the situation in Malaysia and asking why British Columbia wants to trust part of its economic future to these…
Late for the party
$40 Billion LNG Project In Australia Cancelled Amid Low Prices, Charles Kennedy, Oilprice.com, Mar 24, 2016The crash in LNG prices has claimed a major victim. Woodside Petroleum and its partners,…
Industry as policy maker or welfare bum
Many people believe that BC Hydro's current job #1 is enabling the delivery of water and cheap power to northeast gas fields. If true, that serves as proof that government…
Bald Eagles break injunction,build nest in the path of Site C clearing.
Readers may be aware that late March 23, the website 'No Strings Attached: Laila Yuile on politics and life in B.C.' was taken down by a malicious attack aimed at…
March 23 with Jessop of CFAX1070
The audio file below is a recording of my time on CFAX1070 with Ian Jessop March 23, 2016. We talk of BC Hydro and deceitful government.Your browser does not support…
Birds of a feather…
Clark Cabinet or BC Hydro Board?He might not be Person of the Year, but TIME is paying attention to BC Liberals' favourite Malaysian politician and LNG partner. In These 5…
Favoured friends
After the Campbell Liberals were elected in 2001, influences of special business interests grew rapidly. Under Christina Clark's leadership, non-renewable resource companies wield great political power and they use it…
Caution BC Liberals, the temperature’s rising
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Twenty years ago…
In 1996, BC Hydro was a company with total assets of $12.1 billion, delivering 42,834 GWh of electricity to BC's residential, commercial and industrial users.Ten years later, BC Hydro had…
Prima facie
Prima facie may be used as an adjective meaning: "Sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted."Listen to Dermod Travis of Integrity BC talking with…
Appearance of profit, when there is none
BC Hydro has been announcing profits each year and that enables it to pay a dividend to the province, although it has to borrow the money to make the transfer.…
Erik Andersen on BC Hydro debt
This devastating information from Erik Andersen, an economist and widely recognized expert on government and Crown Corporation financing:You will note the unbelievable increase in BC Hydro's debt since Christy Clark…