Energy
BC consumers to subsidize electricity exports
February 5, 2010 by Norm Macdonald
Filed under BC finance, BC news, Business, Energy
BC Liberal private power agenda will cost taxpayers $450 million a year.
A leaked document has confirmed what many British Columbians have always suspected about the BC Liberal private power agenda; forcing BC Hydro to buy private power does not make economic sense, says Columbia River – Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald.
In a submission to the Green Energy Task Force, BC Hydro’s largest industrial customers state that the government’s electricity export scheme will force BC Hydro to pay independent power producers twice as much for electricity as it would be worth on the open market.
BC’s killer plan to reduce emissions
December 26, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC law, Business, Energy, Environment, Food, Global issues, Safety, Travel, Videos
CBS News - Food riots begin worldwide - April 2008
Introduction by Mi Kai Lee.
BC, like so many other jurisdictions, continues to show its support for one of the most socially distasteful schemes of modern times — to kill off millions, perhaps billions, of people in the third world by reducing the global supply of food.
One of the most under-reported stories in the west today are widespread food riots caused by escalating food prices. Millions have died. The scale of this catastrophe completely dwarfs the Asian tsunami, and yet we have not heard a peep from the media.
Copenhagen conference opens
December 7, 2009 by Mi Kai Lee
Filed under Business, Energy, Environment, Global issues, Nature, World News
Connie Hedegaard, Danish politician, minister and chairman for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009, and from January 2010 European Commissioner for the Climate. (Photo: Mogens Engelund, Wikipedia)
While there may be little evidence of human-caused global warming thus far, that may be about to change. The Copenhagen conference on climate change has opened today and promises to generate enough hot air and heated discussion to cause more than a little ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’. Centrists and freedom lovers the world around clash over how to deal with global warming, whether it is anthropogenic (human caused), and even whether the world is actually warming or cooling.
BC wants your thoughts on green energy, carbon trading
November 30, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC democracy, BC news, Business, Energy, Environment, Notices
Green energy advisory task force seeks input.
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
B.C.’s Green Energy Advisory Task Force has launched a website that invites British Columbians to submit their ideas and input on the future of clean and renewable energy in B.C.
Following its first meetings, on Nov.27 and 28, the advisory task force has launched the website, www.greenenergyadvisorytaskforce.ca. The website asks British Columbians to submit their ideas and input on the following subjects: clean energy procurement and regulatory reform; carbon pricing, trading and clean energy export market development; community engagement and First Nations partnerships; and clean energy resource development.
No public consultation on BC’s cap-and-trade agenda
Although the existence or not of human-caused global warming remains a highly charged topic with issues that are far from settled, BC is moving ahead with support for a contentious carbon-credit trading scheme called cap and trade.
While Prime Minister Harper recently indicated after the APEC summit that agreement at the upcoming Copenhagen conference is very unlikely because of so many unresolved discussion items, BC is not waiting for a global consensus before acting.
Who’s who in BC energy development
September 23, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC government, Energy, Environment, Feature stories, Technology
Electricity transmission lines (Photo by Guam/Wikimedia Commons)
In this article we will explore the many public and private agencies and departments involved in the production of energy in the province of British Columbia, clearly identifying the role of each in the process of creating and developing any new power project.
Joint western cabinets sign clean energy agreement
September 11, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC government, BC news, Business, Energy, Technology
In the first ever joint cabinet meeting of the 3 western provinces, premiers Gordon Campbell (BC, left), Ed Stelmach (Alberta, center), and Brad Wall (Saskatchewan, right) signed agreements on economic co-operation and clean energy technology and discussed efforts to combat organized crime. (Photo by Alberta government)
Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan agree to economic partnership.
Strengthening internal trade, innovation and international marketing, further developing Canada-U.S. relations and committing to improve pension coverage for workers highlighted the Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan joint cabinet meeting.
Putting the spotlight on outdoor lighting
August 22, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under Energy, Environment, Feature stories, Homes, Nature, Safety
Bright lights do not deter crime, but do annoy neighbors and disturb the diurnal rhythms of nature. (Photo by Heather Leschied)
Outdoor lights that are left on at night have surprising negative effects on your utility bill, your neighbors and the lake environment. Many people around the lake use lights at night to dispel their feeling of insecurity, but a lot of these lights are wasteful, intrusive and harmful. Bad lighting creates both glare and sky glow. Glare is the direct shining of a light into an observer’s eye, and sky glow is the composite illumination of the sky.
BC Utilities Commission curtails private power
Utilities watchdog bites private power – not green, not smart, not needed.
Yesterday the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) released an order which unequivocally curtails the gold rush towards private power in BC.
The BCUC concluded that the Long Term Acquisition Plan (LTAP) submitted by BC Hydro was “not in the public interest”, disrupting the provincial governments’ ongoing political interference of our public utility.
The BCUC order is a vindication of the comprehensive analysis submitted by COPE 378 on the LTAP and Clean Power Call. The BCUC agrees with COPE 378’s research and submissions: the government cannot exaggerate the need for power by downgrading the Burrard Thermal plant, shortchanging conservation efforts and forcing the purchase of private power, with British Columbians and ratepayers taking the risk.
Building code changes
Press release –
Proposed changes support sustainability and safety.
VICTORIA – Proposed updates to the B.C. Building Code are now available online for public input. Three changes are proposed to provincial building regulations. Representatives from industry and local governments worked with the Province to develop these proposals. They represent the next steps in developing unified green provisions for the construction of new buildings in B.C.
