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…
Norman Farrell
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…
Andrew Nikiforuk on LNG
There is an important article by Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee. He recaps work from various sources, in ways that are so indisputable that even the BC Liberal "Social Media…
Takin’ care of business, part x
As consumers, we are told that Canadian retail prices must be set above American because the costs of operation are higher north of the 49th parallel. For that reason, cars…
BC Liberals and their allies strike back
The BC Liberals are using their most trusted media tools to once again smear victims who have, according to Adrian Dix, "been repeatedly exonerated” in the health ministry scandal.The Christy…
Takin’ care of business
#BCHydro buys a GWh of power from IPPs at $91,380 and exports a GWh at $34,920. Save IPPs the bother and the loss. #bcpoli— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) March 12, 2016According…
Guaranteed injury to BC taxpayers
BC Hydro is in a quandary.Premier Clark's Government requires the utility purchase increasing amounts from independent power producers. However, consumers of electricity, particularly residential and commercial users - the only…
BC Hydro’s primary construction – fabricating falsehoods
Derrick Penner of the Vancouver Sun reported words from the Chief of BC Hydro's nomenklatura :In December, McDonald heralded Site C as “essential to keeping the lights on..."Fundamentally, (independent power…
Travel break
I will travelling until Tuesday with only occasional access to the internet. My plan for the next few months is to visit energy and resource facilities in the Pacific Northwest…
Time for action
A reader comment in a preceding article:We all have to be 'shovel ready' for the upcoming election and 'Turf the Liberals'.There will be massive 1%er sponsored support and corporate funded…
Today’s session with Ian Jessop, CFAX1070
The audio file below is a recording of my time on CFAX 1070 with Ian Jessop March 02, 2016. We talk of BC Hydro and deceitful government.Your browser does not…
Health information technology
British Columbia Hansard, March 1, 2016Judy Darcy, MLA, New Westminster:Last February, we raised the latest IT failure under this Liberal government — the debacle of the clinical system's transformation project…
Pants on fire
Before the last election, Premier Clark justified BC Hydro rate increases as a "common sense decision" that would enable the private/public utility to pay off the billions in its deferred…
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IPPs paid $672 million above market price in 2015
British Columbia Hydro publishes quarterly reports that provide a long term record of consumption by domestic consumers, which are:ResidentialCommercial and light industryHeavy industryI've been reviewing more than 20 years of…