A 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 elected to lead the Province for another four year term.  Throughout history political scholars have warned of a flaw in our system of governance where a charismatic political leader of a duly elected majority government has the power equal to a dictator.

Since the May 2009 the hard truth of unreported financial mismanagement has surfaced in many sectors of the BC economy. Undisclosed changes affecting every taxpayer include benefits turned to losses, public services cut, public assets transferred, public electricity, renewable energy resources, civil rights, Aboriginal rights taken and now the news of $30 or $40 billion dollars of public guarantees in purchase orders issued to thirty or forty of a potential seven hundred private power licenses. Yesterday appearing at a private power licensee meeting in Vancouver the Premier announced a review of his 2002 BC Energy Plan to be conducted by four committees whose members he will name. The Premier used a similar format in 2001. The David Suzuki Foundation and the Alcan Aluminum Company were two noteworthy participants who submitted similarly detailed recommendations, blueprints for public policy privatizing public assets, Crown land, watersheds, rivers, profitable public energy systems and renewable energy assets licensed away for less than 1% of their value into the hands of companies, General Electric, banks and Alberta oilsands companies all done FROM BEHIND THE PREMIER’S GREEN CURTAIN.

Premier Gordon Campbell promised the citizens of BC in 2002 that they would be involved and consulted regarding private power developments occurring in BC, the last Canadian province with a rich public power monopoly. BILL 30, July 2006, barred the public and local governments from consultation in private power projects.   A few private power licenses have become hundreds as exposed in volunteer built and operated website www.ippwatch.info.   The Premier’s private investment opportunities have been revealed as banks making loans for construction of private renewable energy facilities, guaranteed as profitable by citizens committed to pay very high prices for forty years for unneeded electricity that will be dumped into the USA at half the price paid by the public.  As the public begins to enter this controversy the Premier will deny access to the facts. Known facts are and will be available at the website listed above and at www.saveourrivers.ca.

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