Save Our Rivers Society Launches their “Action Page”

The Save Our Rivers Society has recently announced that they have launched a new “Action Page” on their website.   The  Action Page provides you with a convenient opportunity to respond to Premier Campbell directly as an alternative to the proposed public submissions avenue offered via the task force website. We believe this can be a way [...]

More on private power and the Burrard Thermal lies

More from our friend, Rafe Mair, on the private power producers scandal: Burrard Thermal continues to be Campbell’s big and specious argument in favour of private power. The government and the private power people would have you believe that it’s a huge contributor to greenhouse gases whereas it only operates a few days a year [...]

More from Rafe Mair on IPPs

This posting is another interesting read from Rafe Mair’s mailing list. The author of this piece is Doug McArthur, Professor and Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy in the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.  Prior to that he was Senior Fellow and Special Assistant to the President at the University of British Columbia. [...]

You Don’t Have to Sell BC Hydro to Give it Away

The following letter came through Rafe Mair from Dr Marvin Schaffer:  I recently told a right wing friend of mine that this is the worst government British Columbia has had in a very long time. I said that not because of its political orientation and values that time and again favour the interests of the wealthy [...]

BC Liberal gov’t overrules the independent BCUC

The following news release comes from the Wilderness Committee: Vancouver, BC – The Wilderness Committee today condemned the BC government’s decision to order BC Hydro to buy an additional 6,000 gigawatt hours of electrical power from private power producers, in direct opposition to what the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) has recommended. “Requiring BC Hydro to [...]