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.
Climate Change
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.
Rivers for debt: a bad deal
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BC Government Releases Green Energy Advisory Task Force Report
Posted April 28th, 2010Does 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.
CKNW Interview: Debating Green Energy vs Greenwashing
Posted March 14th, 2010 in
Sean Leslie interviews Melissa Davis, Executive Director of BC Citizens for Public Power, Bruce Sanderson with BC Citizens for Green Energy, and Blair Lekstrom, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum on CKNW's The World Today/Weekend.
Eminent BC environmentalist joins provincial public power campaign
Posted March 2nd, 2010 in
Source: bctvkootenays.com
Page: Online
Page: Online
Courier-Islander (Campbell River): This is your Saudi Arabia
Posted February 10th, 2010 in
Source: Courier-Islander (Campbell River)
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.
Throne speech another attempt to "greenwash" government's power privatization plans, according to electricity sector watchdog gr
Posted February 9th, 2010 in
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February 9, 2010
VICTORIA – This afternoon’s Speech from the Throne confirmed the BC government’s disingenuous commitment to climate change solutions and authentically green options for power production, says a provincial energy watchdog organization.
February 9, 2010
VICTORIA – This afternoon’s Speech from the Throne confirmed the BC government’s disingenuous commitment to climate change solutions and authentically green options for power production, says a provincial energy watchdog organization.
