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Marvin Shaffer: B.C. government policies are behind looming B.C. Hydro rate...
B.C. Hydro rates are going up. In its rate application hearing before the B.C. Utilities Commission last year, B.C. Hydro forecast increases of some 10 per cent a year for five years or more. In 10...
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Letter of the Week: How can B.C. Hydro justify more than doubling my bill?
I ask the B.C. Utilities Commission, how is a $35-a-month smart meter opt-out fee justifiable? I have been billed for every-other-month meter-reading, included in the cost of my hydro bill. Now, I’m...
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Editorial: Libs shouldn’t abuse energy consumers
When it comes to B.C. Hydro, the provincial government keeps insisting on having its cake and eating it too. The public should insist that it go on a diet. The continual political interference of B.C....
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Feature – Is this the future of farming in the Fraser Valley?
You could call Chris Bush a visionary. He’s the man behind Catalyst Power and B.C.’s first anaerobic digester, which takes cow manure and turns it into biomethane, a product similar to natural gas that...
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News – Cuts have some concerned about the future of ag research in B.C.
The barn rising at B.C.’s new Agriculture Centre of Excellence at UFV is a welcome sight for those concerned about the future of farm research in B.C. According to the Public Service Alliance union,...
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Letters: Residential schools, aboriginals, apologies, Canadians, run of river...
Public schools are still part of colonization The worst features of residential schools are being recreated in modern public schools. The central intent of government schooling has always been to get...
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Don Swoboda: Make the responsible choice: Build the Site C dam
Last November, I joined a group of retired B.C. Hydro employees to co-sign a formal letter of endorsement to build the Site C project on the Peace River. We submitted this letter to the Joint Review...
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News – Chilliwack dairy farm awaits word on when processor will begin...
The Chilliwack farm at the centre of an animal abuse scandal is awaiting word that processors will begin accepting its milk once again. A spokesman for Chilliwack Cattle Sales said cameras have been...
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Dan Potts: Site C dam unlikely ever to be cost competitive
If B.C. decided to proceed with the construction of the hydroelectric generation dam at Site C, the lasting legacy will be one of wealth destruction. The huge cost of $7.9 billion to build the dam will...
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Editorial: Site C approval is fantastic for B.C.
The $7.9-billion Site C hydroelectric dam project received federal and provincial environmental approval Tuesday and almost immediately opponents began banging out emails and tweets denouncing the...
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Ryan Holmes: Vancouver’s future is in information, not oil
Vancouver has become a shining example of how a city can transition from a heavily resource-based economic model to a more diversified and sustainable economy. We’ve steadily transformed industrial...
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Steve Thorlakson: Large hydro dams work, so let’s build Site C
We are very fortunate that British Columbia is powered primarily by hydroelectricity. These hydroelectric facilities generate clean, reliable, low-cost power, giving us one of the lowest electricity...
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Podcast: In the House with Michael Smyth and guest NDP critic Adrian Dix on...
In this week’s podcast, Province political columnist Michael Smyth talks to NDP energy critic Adrian Dix about problems at B.C. Hydro, including huge cost overruns on new transmission lines and IT...
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Michael Mulcahy: LNG projects provide benefits to B.C. gas customers
On several occasions over the last few weeks, critics quoted in the media have provided inaccurate information about FortisBC’s LNG-related projects. Most recently they’ve claimed that our LNG projects...
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David Akin: Mulcair needs to tip-toe through the pipeline issue
This election is one for the history books for many reasons. It’s the longest modern campaign, the costliest and the first where three parties, rather than two, have legitimate shots at forming the...
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Neil Menard: Interior folks love the environment and support pipelines
There has been a lot of discussion about pipeline projects in recent days, especially in the Lower Mainland of B.C., where urban environmentalists tend to dominate the conversation. People seem to...
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Vicky Husband: Committee shouldn’t greenwash government plans
In May, Premier Christy Clark named 19 people to a new Climate Leadership Team that included representatives from provincial and municipal governments, industry, academia, the environmental community...
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