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.
Electricity Trade
"Green" the colour of money in IPPs' eyes
Posted May 11th, 2009By Melissa Davis
The BC Energy Plan has attracted considerable public and media attention in recent months. And no wonder. The plan affects many core values held by British Columbians: the environment, climate change, public services, and renewable energy.
Deciphering the truth about the BC Energy Plan
Posted April 21st, 2009Citizens Support Kitimat's Opposition to Private Power Exports
Posted April 11th, 2005News Release For Immediate Release April 11 2005
Vancouver – BC Citizens for Public Power today added its support to the District of Kitimat’s campaign to require Alcan to use the electricity generated from the Nechako River for the original purpose of its water licence – to make aluminum, not export electricity to the United States.
Power play
Posted August 21st, 2003
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Page: 3
Section: News
BC Hydro officials and critics traded barbs over whether the same kind of massive blackout that slammed the East could strike here.
Blackout risk growing: Liberals' plan to integrate B.C.'s transmission system more closely with U.S. could increase risk of blac
Posted August 16th, 2003
Saturday, August 16, 2003
Page: A3
Section: Okanagan
Byline: Paul Willcocks
BC Hydro officials and critics traded barbs Friday over whether the same kind of massive blackout that slammed the East could strike here.
Can it happen here?
Posted August 16th, 2003
Saturday, August 16, 2003
Page: A4
Byline: William Boei and Greg Mercer
For British Columbians, it was mesmerizing TV: Within minutes of the first sign of Thursday's rolling, surging power blackout in Ontario and the northeastern U.S., the all-news networks were on the story.
Sorting out what's happening with BC Hydro
Posted July 9th, 2003
Wednesday, July 9, 2003
Page: 4
Section: Opinion
Byline: Luke Mayba
Gutting a Powerhouse: B.C. Hydro and the New Energy Plan
Posted March 31st, 2003
By Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Critique of BC Energy Plan proposals for changing the provision of electricity in BC.
Critics: B.C. would lose control of transmission under regional power system
Posted March 13th, 2003
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Page: 2
VICTORIA (CP) -- A public-interest group claims BC Hydro is preparing to turn over control of its transmission system to American bureaucrats.
High Tension: BC Hydro’s Deep Integration with the U.S.through RTO West
Posted February 28th, 2003Big changes are planned for BCs electricity transmission system. The most startling is that the BC government is planning to give away the operation and control of the system to a U.S. body, RTO West. This action will result in higher rates, greater environmental damage, and the expansion of the system to meet U.S., rather than BC needs.
