Why Run of River is no solution

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."

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BC Premier Campbell From Behind Green Curtain

Tuesday, 03 November 2009

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...
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Government Halts BC Utilities Commission Inquiry

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

article imageBuried 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...
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New Video: Fisheries Minister in Vancouver for Emergency Meeting; Chief Chamberlin Shut Out

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

article thumbnailWatch 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....
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Video Report: DFO at AquaNor While Fraser Sockeye Crash

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

article thumbnailStarring 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...
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Other Recent News

article thumbnailWatch "Home", a film about global climate change

Sunday, 06 December 2009

Click 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...
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article thumbnailIn The Grip of Corruption

Saturday, 07 November 2009

The 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...
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BC Hydro CEO "Transitioned"

Friday, 06 November 2009

Bob 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:...
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Prime Minister Announces Probe Into BC Salmon Stocks

Thursday, 05 November 2009

Article 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....
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Sockeye Secret

Tuesday, 03 November 2009

Salmon 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....
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article thumbnailBC Government Overrules Independent Regulator and Lines Pockets of Private Power Producers

Friday, 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,...
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