BCCPP Opinions/Editorials

Power follies exposed

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.

BCUC decision vindicates union stand on Hydro privatization

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.

John Calvert on Bill 17: BC's Clean Energy Act

Cleaning Out BC’s Hydro Assets 
By John Calvert 

Marvin Shaffer on Bill 17: BC's Clean Energy Act

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.

The Clean Energy Act – adding insult to injury
April 29th, 2010 ·

Courier-Islander (Campbell River): This is your Saudi Arabia

Source: Courier-Islander (Campbell River)
Page:
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Byline: Melissa Davis

It’s not easy being green, as the saying goes, and nowhere more so than here in British Columbia.  

BC energy policy: Green or greenwashing


Comment
Melissa Davis
Rossland Telegraph
02 Feb 2010

Run-of-the-river projects threaten efforts to become green

Vancouver Sun
Page: A-15
Friday, January 29, 2010
Byline: Melissa Davis

It's not easy being green, as the saying goes, and nowhere more so than here in British Columbia.

Commission ruling leaves private power producers crying a river


Vancouver Sun
Page: A9
Publish Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Byline: Melissa Davis  

BC Utilities commission decision short-circuits private power

Business in Vancouver
August 11, 2009
Page:  26
 Byline: Melissa Davis  

OpEd: BC Utilities Commission pulls the plug on private power

Georgia Straight
August 3, 2009
www.straight.com

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