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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The eyes of British Columbians should be on BC Hydro's Site C project. It is a hydro facility not needed in a province that has had a decade of flat…
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki, Mychaylo Prystupa, The Tyee, February 23, 2016:Flooding valuable farmland to build the Site C dam undermines Canada's commitment to meet international climate-change…
A regular reader provided this comment to the preceding article. Hugh explains that the capture of BC's public utility by selfish profiteers was a carefully considered manoeuvre. In the end,…
According to BC Hydro's report for the nine months ended December 31, 2015, domestic consumption of electricity is down 2.2% from the same period 10 years prior.That we've had stable…
I am reading budget documents and will soon be writing more about the provincial government's financial smoke and mirrors but I have initial comments.Natural GasBC Liberals, particularly Premier Clark, are…
I'm often critical of corporate media but there is still some sharp work being done, even by people outside the major urban centres of BC. Here's an example:References to the…
BC Hydro's own sales records demonstrate Site C is not needed. Domestic consumption of electricity has been flat for more than a decade and technological efficiencies indicate we will need…
I've been reporting information taken from annual and quarterly reports of BC Hydro. There are important economic issues and billions of dollars at stake and the people who benefit from…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
The audio file below is a recording of my time on CFAX1070 with Ian Jessop October 06. We talk mostly about BC Hydro and the inevitable high-level rate increases. Your…
In 2009, the Wilderness Committee issued a press release. Gwen Barlee and Joe Foy were prescient: “Requiring BC Hydro to purchase power that it doesn’t need is an idiotic decision…
