BC Hydro

While governments diddle around with new nuclear power and the climate crisis threatens to go over the top, you can install alternative energy yourself at home or in your business, probably for less cost than buying a hybrid car. And of course, for the householder as well as the power corporation, the “negawatt” of power saved through energy

by James Knoop 

The town of Golden may seem to be a backwater place in the middle of nowhere, but when it comes to the environment, and in particular to the rampant push for independent power producer (IPP) projects, we’ve had to face our battles just as much as anywhere else. 

by Arthur Caldicott

For ten years, the BC government has been pushing BC Hydro to acquire increasing amounts of electricity from independent power producers (IPPs). Initially, Hydro was told it could not build any new generation facilities, so would have to buy from IPPs. Then the policy ramped up: buy enough “clean” energy by 2016 to meet domestic demand. Then: meet domestic load

by Stephanie Orford

People all over the world have been using geother­mal energy for thousands of years, so why isn’t BC?

“All the countries on the Pacific Rim have developed geothermal, ex­cept Canada,” said Dr. Mory Ghom­shei, adjunct professor of Energy Re­sources and Systems at

A debate is raging on the BC coast about the future of Bute Inlet. It’s about private power versus public power. It’s about the potential NAFTA threat of foreign involvement on our rivers. It is about responses to climate change.

Environmentalists are alarmed at the impact of industrial developments on remote coastal rivers, inlets, and mountains previously the terrain of First

by Erik Andersen

The Gordon Campbell/Christy Clark energy policies have pillaged BC Hydro of the equity that employees contributed and created. I feel sorry for the employees, who do not understand that their contributions have been squandered for the benefit of others. When the predator class gets sight of a sound balance sheet - as BC Hydro once had - it is slaughtered like an innocent