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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 13th, 2012
This is neither a complicated nor a long story – but it’s a tragic vindication for a hell of a lot of people who have been telling the story, ignored at best, more often vilified. Look at page 1 of the story in the Vancouver Sun, May 11 under the heading “HYDRO AWASH IN PRIVATE [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 10th, 2012
These opening words from Gwen Barlee of the Wilderness Committee which cry out (in my mind at any rate for I don’t speak for the W.C. which certainly doesn’t need my help) for the highest manifestation of protest including civil disobedience: Tucked away in the wild of northern Vancouver Island, the Kokish River is a [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 27th, 2012
In the first of a two-part interview, Rafe Mair grills BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix on private power, Site C Dam and BC’s flawed environmental assessment process. What will the NDP do with existing and future private river power projects (a.k.a. IPPs) if they form the next government – and where do they stand on [...]
Posted in General on Oct 1st, 2010
The environmental process in this province is awful. It’s especially awful because it exists in a form that looks fine on paper but is an exercise in futility for anyone who really wants to learn what’s planned and put their two bits in. I do a weekly little radio spot called the Political Panel with [...]
Posted in General on Sep 29th, 2010
What the hell is in it for us? I hate to sound ungracious towards our friends and neighbours by asking that question but it’s occurred to me quite often and I, for one, would like an answer. With fish farms, what the hell is in it for us with them? Over 90% of the farms [...]
Posted in General on Jul 12th, 2010
The government of British Columbia, often with the federal government in tow, holds environmental assessment hearings (EAPs) into whether or not a private river project should go ahead or not. These hearings make trial by the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland look like paragons of judicial propriety. They are so phony that I [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 26th, 2010
BC’s river giveaway to private producers was never about self-sufficiency, we now see. The polls showing Premier Campbell in deep doo-doo came out before the Site “C” decision. God only knows what the results would have been if they had been taken afterwards. Site “C” demonstrates beyond doubt that Campbell hasn’t been telling the truth [...]
Posted in General on Apr 19th, 2010
Premier Campbell’s decision to go ahead with Site “C” demonstrates what I’ve said all over the province and written for anyone who will print it for nearly three years: “Run of River, better stated as private power initiatives, will not supply power to BC Hydro because it produces its power during the run-off when BC [...]
Posted in Rafe Reacts on Mar 11th, 2010
More Please!!! by Marvin Shaffer Every now and again you read something so outrageous you have to laugh. So it is with the report recently released by BC Citizens for Clean Energy: A Triple Legacy for Future Generations. The essence of this lobby group’s proposal is that the government should develop an export policy for [...]
Posted in Rafe Reacts on Jan 22nd, 2010
This release is huge news for those who have been opposing this horrible project – mostly it’s good news for all of British Columbia. OTTAWA, Jan. 21 /CNW Telbec/ – The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is postponing its participant funding process for the proposed Bute Inlet Hydroelectric Project in British Columbia due to changes in [...]
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