BCCPP Opinions/Editorials
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.
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.
The Clean Energy Act – adding insult to injury
April 29th, 2010 ·
Dr. Marvin Shaffer, is Adjunct Professor in the Public Policy Masters Program at Simon Fraser University and principal author of Lost in Transmission.
Courier-Islander (Campbell River): This is your Saudi Arabia
Posted February 10th, 2010 in
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.
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
Posted February 2nd, 2010 in
Comment
Melissa Davis
Rossland Telegraph
02 Feb 2010
Run-of-the-river projects threaten efforts to become green
Posted January 29th, 2010 in
Vancouver Sun
Page: A-15
Friday, January 29, 2010
Byline: Melissa Davis
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
Posted August 18th, 2009 in
BC Utilities commission decision short-circuits private power
Posted August 11th, 2009 in
Business in Vancouver
August 11, 2009
Page: 26
Byline: Melissa Davis
Byline: Melissa Davis
OpEd: BC Utilities Commission pulls the plug on private power
Posted August 3rd, 2009 in
Georgia Straight
August 3, 2009
www.straight.com
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