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Columbia River Treaty interesting option as NDP ponders Site C

03/11/17
Author: 
Vaughan Palmer
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun

VICTORIA — Tucked into the back pages of the B.C. Utilities Commission review of Site C is an intriguing discussion of a replacement source of electricity that wouldn’t require B.C. to build anything.

The option, laid out in a seven page annex, would see B.C. reclaim its entitlement to a share of the power generated on the US side of the border under the 50-year-old Columbia River Treaty.

Essentially, B.C. (standing in for Canada) agreed to build a series of dams on our side of the border to manage volatile water flows on the Columbia River.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
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Site C Inquiry - Final Report and Executive Summary

01/11/17
Author: 
bcuc
Link: 
BC Utilities Commission

November 1, 2017   

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
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B.C. government supports LNG Canada project

23/10/17
Author: 
Brent Jang
Link: 
The Globe and Mail

British Columbia's NDP government is facing controversy over liquefied natural gas as environmental groups warn that a project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC will derail the province's efforts to transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
LNG - Fracking
VESG
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NORTHWEST GAS PROJECTS FUEL THE FRACKING BEAST

20/10/17
Author: 
Eric de Place
Link: 
Sightline Institute

Methanol, LNG, and power plants drive Canada’s gas industry.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Kill Site C, Former Hydro CEO Tells Commission

17/10/17
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk

Marc Eliesen said project not needed, costs underestimated and consumers at risk.

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here.

Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
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Evidence and pressure builds to kill Site C dam

14/10/17
Author: 
Mike Smyth
Link: 
The Province

Columnist Mike Smyth writes about the building evidence against the Site C dam. Will the NDP pull the plug on the controversial project?

As the NDP government’s fast-tracked review of the Site C dam continues, bad news about the controversial megaproject is piling up on a near-daily basis.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
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Former Site C manager files wrongful dismissal suit arising from allegations of worker safety violations

14/10/17
Author: 
Keith Fraser
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
The Site C Dam location is seen along the Peace River in Fort St. John, B.C., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS

A former manager with the Site C dam project has filed a wrongful dismissal lawsuit alleging he was fired after he raised concerns about safety in the workplace.

Kent Peyton said that in January he was hired to get construction of the Peace River dam on schedule and on budget and that he was responsible for all high-level decision-making related to the excavation process as well as being in charge of the health and safety of all workers.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
Labour - Unions
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Public unfairly kept in dark on Site C's 'gory' details

28/09/17
Author: 
Vaughn Palmer
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun

VICTORIA — The B.C. Utilities Commission moved quickly Wednesday to block public access to the uncensored version of an independent review it commissioned into Site C.

At 8 a.m., the communications director for the commission, Erica Hamilton, called Robert McCullough, the Portland, Ore.-based energy expert who’d posted an unredacted copy of the report by Deloitte LLP on his website.

She asked him to take down the offending version of the report and he obliged.

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British Columbia
Energy
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B.C. Hydro's Site C promises ring hollow

27/09/17
Author: 
Vaughan Palmer
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
FILE PHOTO - Photo illustrating construction work on the B.C. Hydro Site C dam project on the Peace River in July 2017. B.C. HYDRO /PNG

VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro was nine per cent over budget and already dipping into contingency funds from day one on the main construction contract at Site C, according to the uncensored version of a report to the B.C. Utilities Commission.

The troubles continue to the present day, with the $1.8 billion main civil works contract having run through three quarters of its contingency budget with only one quarter of the work being done.

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British Columbia
Energy
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Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

22/09/17
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
monbiot.com

published in the Guardian 20th September 2017

Which living person has done most to destroy the natural world and the future wellbeing of humanity? Donald Trump will soon be the correct answer, when the full force of his havoc has been felt. But for now I would place another name in the frame. Angela Merkel.

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Category: 
Capitalism
Climate Change
Coal
Energy
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