|
|
What’s wrong with the Liberal governments's BC Energy Plan?
Rex Wyler on BC Energy Policy: "First of all, it is not a British Columbian energy plan at all, but rather a plan to privatize BC’s watersheds and power production, erode our public utility, BC Hydro, and export electricity to the US market. It is a globalization plan, with BC cast in the role of a resource colony."
|
Top Stories
BC Premier Campbell From Behind Green CurtainTuesday, 03 November 2009A press release from the Save Our Rivers Society:
SAVE OUR RIVERS SOCIETY
PRESS RELEASE November 3, 2009
BC PREMIER CAMPBELL FROM BEHIND GREEN CURTAIN
Today at the SFU WOSK Centre for Dialogue in the Delta Suites Hotel on Vancouver’s Hastings Street a two day GREEN ENERGY conference begins which is billed as open to the public. A ticket is $200.00.
Premier Campbell assumed absolute power over the Province of British Columbia in 2001. On May 12, 2009 he and his BC Liberal party were... + Full Story | Government Halts BC Utilities Commission InquiryTuesday, 20 October 2009Buried on Page 2 of the Vancouver Province today, October 20, is a headline “Province halts major transmission system inquiry." This means that, when you look behind the Campbell government’s never abating never ending fog about energy, this means that the BC Utilities Commission, the public’s watchdog will not carry on its independent investigation into the Campbell government’s horrific Energy Plan.
This Plan took away BC Hydro’s right to create new energy and gave that job to the... + Full Story | New Video: Fisheries Minister in Vancouver for Emergency Meeting; Chief Chamberlin Shut OutTuesday, 15 September 2009Watch this new short video on the emergency meeting held by Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in Vancouver this past Friday to discuss the Fraser River Sockeye collapse - her first trip to Vancouver since the crisis hit.
Watch the 7 min video here: high resolution medium resolution
The exclusive, invitation-only meeting left out some important voices, including Chief Bob Chamberlin - Chair of the First Nations Leadership Council-mandated Aquaculture Working Group - who was turned away at the door.... + Full Story | Video Report: DFO at AquaNor While Fraser Sockeye CrashWednesday, 26 August 2009Starring Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea & the King of NorwayWatch the 7 min video here: high resolution medium resolution
DFO's booth at AquaNor
Something is fishy in Norway.
Damien Gillis confronts the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans at the world's biggest fish farming trade show in Trondheim, Norway. Gillis asked Minister Shea how she responds to criticism of the optics of DFO being in Norway while the iconic Fraser River Sockeye run collapses, with possible links... + Full Story |
|
Other Recent News
Watch "Home", a film about global climate changeSunday, 06 December 2009Click here to view (at no charge) the 1 1/2 hour film "Home", by French film maker Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It includes footage from 54 countries.
Synopsis
In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has... + Full Story | In The Grip of CorruptionSaturday, 07 November 2009The press release from the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources last week might have you thinking the Burrard Thermal generating plant in Port Moody will soon be shut down and our air... + Full Story | BC Hydro CEO "Transitioned"Friday, 06 November 2009Bob Elton, President and CEO of BC Hydro, wasn't reading from the same page as the Campbell government on energy policy. As a result, he has been "transitioned" out of his job. Story from CBC News:... + Full Story | Prime Minister Announces Probe Into BC Salmon StocksThursday, 05 November 2009Article by John Ibbitson in the Globe and Mail: PM announces probe into B.C. salmon stocks
Excerpt: "The federal government has been repeatedly criticized for its management of offshore resources.... + Full Story | Sockeye SecretTuesday, 03 November 2009Salmon stocks, particularly Sockeye salmon stocks, are crashing and scientific research and study is required to understand why and to take effective steps forward to manage and rehabilitate stocks.... + Full Story | BC Government Overrules Independent Regulator and Lines Pockets of Private Power ProducersFriday, 30 October 2009
Vancouver, BC – The Wilderness Committee today condemned the BC government's decision to order BC Hydro to buy an additional 6,000 gigawatt hours of electrical power from private power producers,... + Full Story |
|
|
|
|