Ottawa threatens to withdraw RCMP in 2014: UBCM convention
More UBCM water cooler talk. 5:50 pm Solicitor-General Shirley Bond dropped a bombshell at the UBCM convention this afternoon, telling delegates that the federal government is threatening to withdraw...
View ArticlePower price shocks more than local phenomenon
BC Hydro’s application last spring for rate increases of 34 per cent over three years, and suggested a need for price rises in the range of 50 per cent over five years, caused too big a shock to...
View ArticleBC Hydro, Gitxsan sign benefits agreement over Northwest Transmission
BC Hydro’s much touted Northwest Transmission line will cross 344 kilometres of rugged landscape that is still mostly subject to first nation land claims, so the utility is under a considerable...
View ArticleBC Hydro resolves impasse with Lax Kw’alaams over NW Transmission Line
BC Hydro has resolved one of the more contentious disagreements over its Northwest Transmission Line plans by signing an impact and benefits deal with the Lax Kw’alaam First Nation, the utility...
View ArticleEnergy efficient conversions begin to pay off in lower electric bills
Everything in my house is electric. Any light that doesn’t come from the sun, hot water and heat are all powered by electricity. After brooding for quite some time about BC Hydro’s decision to create a...
View ArticleWhere in B.C. is smart-meter opposition the highest?
I’ve got a story about how BC Hydro customers on the Gulf Islands are 15 times more likely to refuse a smart meter than those in Vancouver. Accompanying the story was an interactive map and interactive...
View ArticlePaddle down the Peace River in summer provides a far different picture of...
Today, the Peace River Valley is locked in winter’s grip. Deer paw through snow for food, smoke circles up from the chimneys of homesteads, and the landscape takes on a monochromatic hue. The valley...
View ArticleTears fall in the Peace River during Site C hearings
Outside, the wind blew and the snow fell. But inside, tears flowed as a Joint Review Panel considering BC Hydro’s Site C dam proposal heard emotional testimony from people who live in the Peace River...
View ArticleB.C. gets $1-million boost to electrical vehicle charging
The province is contributing to a nearly $1-million boost to the installation of electric-vehicle charging stations, primarily in condominium and apartment buildings. B.C. will put $688,500 of the...
View ArticleReal estate scams need high-tech attention, say Vancouver and Canadian experts
Experts say that money laundering, fraud and tax evasion in B.C.’s speculative real estate market could be impossible to tackle unless agency information silos are broken and enforcement is increased...
View ArticleSite C hunger striker 'tired,' but OK
Dan Fumano The Province Standing on the doorstep of B.C. Hydro’s head office, a protester said Sunday she was tired and hungry, but in good spirits as she headed into the third week of a hunger...
View ArticleElectric vehicle numbers growing in B.C., but still far behind gas-powered...
Electric vehicle registrations are surging in B.C., fuelled by hefty provincial incentives, improved technology and desirable packaging. But the overall number of hybrid and fully-electric cars on the...
View ArticleFriday, April 1: Site C, daycare, hydro, TPP, debt, religion
Hydro rates will soar for sake of fracked gas The Site C juggernaut rolls on. Why? We don’t need the power. Site C is being built to frack gas. We know fracking triggers seismic events. We know Site C...
View ArticleBC Hydro borrows millions more to pay government dividend
VICTORIA — BC Hydro is borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars to meet the provincial government’s demands for an annual dividend. The Crown power corporation owes around $852 million to the...
View ArticleNDP sounds alarm on salaries at Hydro subsidiary Powerex
The number of employees making more than $150,000 a year at Powerex, the trading subsidiary of B.C. Hydro, has nearly doubled over the past 10 years, an increase that has coincided with a considerable...
View ArticleVideo: B.C. Politics this week – BC Hydro debt and BC NDP complaints over jobs
This week on Inside the Ledge, Vaughn Palmer and Rob Shaw discuss BC Hydro’s debt and dividend problem, as well as complaints that are stacking up about the BC NDP over jobs and election readiness.
View ArticleBlue skies ahead? Canadian solar power counts one million homes
From a rooftop on West Broadway, Rob Baxter stands between two rows of solar panels and tries to explain, as simply as he can, the scientific process that’s fuelling the small boom he says his solar...
View ArticleVaughn Palmer: Hydro charged up over Site C review, glosses over cost concerns
VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro was trumpeting Tuesday the findings of a review of planning and risk management on the hydroelectric dam at Site C on the Peace River. “Review concludes project is clearly defined...
View ArticleVaughn Palmer: Site C so far advanced no government would kill it
VICTORIA — On a recent tour of the well-under-construction hydroelectric dam at Site C on the Peace River, the first thing that stuck me was the level of security. I passed through a half-dozen gated...
View ArticlePower outage affects huge swath of Burnaby, and other Lower Mainland areas
Tens of thousands of BC Hydro customers awoke to a power outage in the Lower Mainland this morning. Hydro was reporting nearly 30,000 customers affected by outages early in the morning. That number had...
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