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Articles & Editorials
This section provides an archive of Media Articles and Editorials featuring BC Citizens for Public Power, from May 2002 - December 2010. A more comprehensive media archive on the public/private power debate--and associated social, economic, and environmental issues--appears in the BC Guardians project (media content arranged chronologically and by geographic region).
Power follies exposed
Posted November 5th, 2010 in
Source: Comox Valley Echo
Page: A12
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
Byline:Richard Hagensen
We all know our hydro rates have headed skyward in the past few years, but many of us don't understand how rate hikes relate to new private power projects in BC - and haven't realized it's going to get a lot worse.
Page: A12
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
Byline:
We all know our hydro rates have headed skyward in the past few years, but many of us don't understand how rate hikes relate to new private power projects in BC - and haven't realized it's going to get a lot worse.
BCUC decision vindicates union stand on Hydro privatization
Posted August 4th, 2010 in
www.geoffmeggs.ca
Vancouver City Councillor
4 August 2010
Geoff Meggs
When the BC Utilities Commission ruled earlier this year that Terasen could walk away from its longstanding billing service agreement with Accenture, it was another nail in the coffin of the BC Liberals privatization plans for BC Hydro.
Critics challenge special deal for new hydro project: AltaGas gets unprecedented 60-year contract from BC Hydro
Posted June 1st, 2010
Source: Vancouver Sun
Page:
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Byline: Scott Simpson
An unprecedented 60-year electricity purchase agreement between BC Hydro and AltaGas Income Trust has prompted some critics to decry the secrecy surrounding a $700-million run-of-river hydro project in northwest British Columbia.
Page:
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Byline: Scott Simpson
Smart meter on the way, Hydro insists: Billion-dollar plan
Posted May 21st, 2010
Suzanne Fournier
The Province
May 21, 2010
A controversial billion-dollar plan to install "smart meters" in 1.8 million B.C. homes and businesses is going full steam ahead, B.C. Hydro insisted Thursday.
The Province
May 21, 2010
A controversial billion-dollar plan to install "smart meters" in 1.8 million B.C. homes and businesses is going full steam ahead, B.C. Hydro insisted Thursday.
John Calvert on Bill 17: BC's Clean Energy Act
Posted April 29th, 2010 in
Marvin Shaffer on Bill 17: BC's Clean Energy Act
Posted April 29th, 2010
From CCPA's Policy Note (www.policynote.ca)
Dr. Marvin Shaffer, is Adjunct Professor in the Public Policy Masters Program at Simon Fraser University and principal author of Lost in Transmission.
Dr. Marvin Shaffer, is Adjunct Professor in the Public Policy Masters Program at Simon Fraser University and principal author of Lost in Transmission.
Clean Energy Act will spark debate
Posted April 28th, 2010 in
Source: Vancouver Sun
It’s called the Clean Energy Act but the politics around it will be messy.
It’s called the Clean Energy Act but the politics around it will be messy.
Why I support Site C, with conditions: We need the new power source and this is a clean, reliable one. But the people of B.C. mu
Posted April 24th, 2010 in
BC Hydro selects four new projects under Clean Power Call program: Two run-of-river projects in Squamish among agreements awarde
Posted April 1st, 2010
Page: E2
BC Hydro has selected the second group of projects to be awarded electricity purchase agreements under the clean-power call for new sources of electricity.