PEOPLE POWER is a six-chaper 50 minute DVD designed to help activists launch grassroots community-based campaigns to protect public power and the environment.
PEOPLE POWER provincial tour: Rex Weyler touring BC communities to talk about electricity privatization
Posted October 4th, 2010
In October and November I will tour British Columbia to talk with communities about preserving our rivers and resisting the privatization of electric power. During this tour, we will feature the new film, PEOPLE POWER by documentary filmmaker Damien Gillis, produced by BC Citizens for Public Power.
The BC Government’s “Green Energy” Fallacy
Posted September 24th, 2010In this blog posting, Rex Weyler exposes the ways in which the government has attempted to soften their privatization plan by claiming that private river power projects are sources of “green” energy that will help slow global warming.
BC government destroying public power
Posted August 12th, 2010
This Blog posting elaborates on the eighth issue identified in Rex's first submission: the destruction of BC's public utility through legislation that seeks to privatize the province's electricity sector, bankrupting BC Hydro in the process.
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Rivers for debt: a bad deal
Posted June 22nd, 2010*********
Rivers of corruption
Posted May 31st, 2010*******
Does BC need more energy?
Posted April 22nd, 2010
This blog posting elaborates on the issue of "false assumptions" regarding the need for new sources of energy in British Columbia--the first of 12 problems with the BC Energy Plan that Rex identifies in the first blog submission.
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What's wrong with the BC Energy Plan?
Posted April 1st, 2010
The BC Energy Plan is at the centre of the social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with the provincial government’s energy policy. My first Blog posting for BC Citizens for Public Power summarizes a dozen key problems with the BC Energy Plan—and proposes some simple solutions.