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Campbell's Power to Harm Rivers |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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Article by Rafe Mair in The Tyee: Campbell's Power to Harm Rivers.
Excerpt: "There's the B.C. Ministry of Environment. Surely it can be depended upon to look after public interests in the great outdoors British Columbians like to boast about. Unfortunately, we know from other matters such as the Eagleridge case and the South Fraser Perimeter Road that the Environmental Assessment Act is only invoked after the decision has been made." |
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BC's Local Political Leaders Reject Power Plan |
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Written by Mark Hume
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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VANCOUVER -- Some 33 regional districts and municipalities in areas
of British Columbia long courted by the government as the resource-rich
"heartlands" have turned against the province in a battle
over independent power projects.
In June 2006 the provincial government passed an amendmentto Bill 30 that abolished local zoning authority so that no one can say no to a private power project on a river in BC.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 October 2007 )
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Written by Robin Matthews
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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In British Columbia, the population, today, is in the process of being
robbed in one of the largest, dirtiest, fraudulent deals in Canadian
history - with very little time to reverse the direction. It is a
move to destroy democratic management of an absolutely key B.C. resource,
to implant foreign corporate rule raking in billions of dollars, to
kidnap and erase resource ownership by British Columbians, and to
impoverish them in a move to create what will be - put in simple terms
- a fascist relation between private corporate capitalism (heavily
foreign, heavily U.S.) and the B.C. government through an inferior
and rapacious exploitation of B.C.s water resources.
At the root of this robbery is Gordon Campbell, his cabinet, and his
MLAs. They have lied, have hidden information, have legislated to
prevent democratic participation and to keep information completely
from British Columbians. They are doing everything they can to shut
off the voice and to kill the aspirations of British Columbians for
the continuation of a fair, publicly owned, service oriented energy
system intrinsic to the health and prosperity of the Province.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 June 2007 )
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Sticker Shock: The Impending Cost of BC Hydro’s Shift to Private Power Developers |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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“Our electricity bills are going to be hiked, but the citizens of BC won’t get any new assets or long-term energy security in exchange.” - John Calvert The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a study by John Calvert of SFU, Sticker Shock: The Impending Cost of BC Hydro’s Shift to Private Power Developers (PDF). Click here to read the CCPA's press release. Excerpt: "BC Hydro customers can expect their electricity bills to escalate dramatically in coming years, thanks to the provincial government’s energy policy. It bans BC Hydro from developing new power generation, instead forcing the Crown Corporation to buy more and more energy from high-cost private developers -- at prices far higher than those of other options." |
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