BC Resources

It is with pride and pleasure that BC Citizens Campaign for Public Power announces the release of its DVD/webcast project PEOPLE POWER: Building Social Movements to Protect Public Power in Canada.

Below is a resource of BC government documents that pertain to electricity in BC.

Green Energy Advisory Task Force Report, 2010.

BC Energy Plan, Key Timelines, 2007. 

The BC government released the “findings” of their Green Energy Advisory Task Force—a final report—not so coincidentally on the very same day as tabling their Clean Energy Act in the Legislature.

Read the News Release and Backgrounder for the BC Clean Energy Act tabled today in the Legislature. 

Also, below are hyperlinks to key sections of the Bill 17:

The Wilderness Committee and BC Creeks Protection Society commissioned independent legal research to review environmental standards of private hydrop power projects in BC.

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Please visit the new Save Our Rivers Action Page to send a letter to Premier Campbell directly telling him exactly what you think about his "Green Energy Task Force".

A Two Year Progress Report that summarizes some of BCCPP's key achievements and provides an accounting of financial activities within the organization in the fiscal years ending 2008 and 2009.

Right now, the world is facing a climate and economic crises. Without urgent    action for a transition to low carbon economies and societies, the world is in peril. Mere weeks away from the important climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, world leaders are already warning that urgent action may not come soon. This must change.

Here is a story that seems to have not been reported much in Canada. It appears to be one more step in continental integration under NAFTA as Mexico lays the basis for privatizing and restructuring its electricity system.

The Western Canada Wilderness Committee recently released a report entitled: BC Rivers at Risk (the successor to Power Grab, an earlier publication).