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Norman Farrell
Buy high, sell low
In the six months ended September 30, BC Hydro purchased 7,640 GWh of electricity from independent power producers. It paid $599 million, which is $78,400 per GWh.In the same period,…
Proceeding without caution
Even slightly aware BC citizens know that Premier Clark and her accomplices are incompetent. Liberal managers include not a single person capable of completing a basic course in strategic decision…
Can we talk about fast ferries instead?
From a presentation by renowned columnist Erik Andersen on CBC...After BC Hydro made all the IPP contracts Premier Campbell found that California did not consider "run of river" generation green.…
Takin’ Care of Business
These charts demonstrate that rewarding influential friends is a prime BC Liberal purpose. Despite a decade of flat...Posted by Norman Farrell on Friday, January 1, 2016So, if demand for electricity…
How "clean" is BC’s natural gas industry?
Methane: The other important greenhouse gas, Environmental Defense Fund:By emitting just a little bit of methane, mankind is greatly accelerating the rate of climatic change. - Steve Hamburg EDF Chief…
Fewer words, more pictures
Province defends Massey Bridge as top pick for federal grants, Jeff Nagel, Black Press, December 21, 2015:Transportation Minister Todd Stone is defending the province's decision to make the replacement of…
Deceit as government policy
Writing in The Tyee, Damien Gillis provides the best analysis I've seen of Christy Clark's LNG fantasies. Read it and share it. Three Fibs Premier Clark Uses to Sell LNG…
Fluid mechanics
A 2-inch pipe between 1/2-inch pipes will not increase flow but will increase costs. #bcpoli #RichmondBC #surreybc pic.twitter.com/3elfTRRLbo— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) December 19, 2015H/T: RobS
Pammy’s progress
RossK's The Gazetteer, in This Day In Clarkland...Pammy's Progress, featured a Tweet of BC's NotSenator Pam talking with Burke Mountain Liberals in Coquitlam. I couldn't not reply..@pamelamartin_bc kicks off our…
It’s a start
B.C. Liberal party executive director resigns, facing criminal charges in Ontario, CBC News, December 17, 2015:Laura Miller charged with breach of trust, mischief, and misuse of a computer system to…
Flaws of classic cars
In moments of honesty, we older folks will admit the cars of our youth are better in memory than they were in reality.I knew a man who lovingly restored an…
Gas production ↑ 85%, public revenue ↓ 90%
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas AdamsDays ago, Premier Clark averred that…
Rich lands, poor people
GDP measures income, but not equality, it measures growth, but not destruction, and it ignores values like social cohesion and the environment. - OECDIf a province allows extraction of natural…
Distortions and half-truths but mostly outright lies
February 13, 2013, Premier Christy Clark announced:...the new British Columbia Prosperity Fund to ensure communities, First Nations and all British Columbians benefit from the development of a new liquefied natural…
John’s still aghast
Almost one year ago, this piece was submitted as a comment to another article. It still makes as much sense as it did last December so I feature it at…
What gas industry?
What BC gets from natural gas industry in 2015 does not even pay half the cost of Gas Development Ministry. #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/1wDCkQsbC7— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) December 11, 2015Note: Numbers from…
Marcellus was correct
The more time I spend reviewing BC Hydro, the more I am reminded of the famous line spoken by a minor character in Shakespeare's Hamlet. BC Hydro released its Second…
No limit, no principle, no shame
Christy Clark accused of interfering in local band election to aid brother’s deal, Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, December 9, 2015Premier Christy Clark has been accused of interfering in a…
Loyalty rewarded
UBC Board of Governors elects Stuart Belkin as new chair, UBC News, December 7, 2015:UBC’s Board of Governors has elected Stuart Belkin as the board’s incoming chair. Belkin is chair…