Issues

Our society runs on energy. And energy in BC, over the past four decades, has been owned by the province and its people. Public power generation transformed our province. Now the Gordon Campbell Liberal government is dismantling our public power system – starting with BC Hydro – to create a private power market. Private power is more expensive for you, the consumer. It can be more destructive to our environment. And it may not be available to BC businesses.

• Read about how and why BC’s Social Credit government created BC Hydro more than 40 years ago.
• Learn more about the provincial government's historical relationship to BC Hydro, and our present government’s privatization and deregulation efforts.
• Curious about the link to free trade? It’s spelled out in the section on Electricity Trade.
• Key environmental issues, and how they relate to public vs. private power, are highlighted in the section on Climate Change
• And the advantages and disadvantages of different types of energy—under public and private operations—are discussed in the sections on Water, Wind, and Fossil Fuels.