'Alternative' energy and less energy

Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?

"There is a right way to do ‘just transition.’”

July 12th 2018

This story was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

May 28, 2018, interview

Hydro’s incentive program that pays home solar producers for electricity beyond what they need themselves is the cutting edge of climate collapse amelioration.  These rebates have been available for 14 years; Hydro has 1,330 customers; 95% of them installed solar.  Hydro will apply to the BC Utilities Commission to end the part of the program that allows production beyond the owner’s need.  It will continue for those already on that track, but would be unavailable for new applicants.

Below is a part of the Socialist Alliance’s climate action plan. For more information go to the policy page.

“We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation,” he said. “That can’t be good.”

Jan. 10/18

It has been a month now since the BC government announced that Site C would continue. The accounting rationale used by Premier Horgan makes absolutely no sense in light of the findings from the recent BCUC review, and the much greater financial woes of continuing the project.