Lew Edwardson wrote the following as a comment on the post Lack of transparency at BC Hydro may conceal massive fraud. It deserves to be repeated as a separate post. Thanks to Lew for his peerless contributions.
Warning: this will not build confidence in elected officials and senior public servants.
BC’s Auditor General conducted an audit for the period December 2014 to January 2022 to determine if BC Hydro had established a program to effectively manage fraud risk on the Site C dam and hydroelectric energy project. Among other findings, it was determined that prior to this audit, BC Hydro had not performed fraud risk assessments for Site C, had established no fraud risk program for it to monitor and evaluate, nor had it assigned fraud risk management responsibility to a senior BC Hydro executive.
Now, one would expect audit findings of this nature to attract much attention from our elected officials, and that they would welcome the opportunity to get BC Hydro representatives in front of them to explain how it was that eight years into the largest infrastructure project in the province’s history, and with massive budget overruns making headlines, such a serious deficiency could exist.
Luckily, just such a forum is well established. It’s called the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts. The following link details the severe grilling BC Hydro received at the hands of our elected officials.
Did you weep when you read that? Become outraged? Or both?
Twenty-four minutes, start to finish. Most of it filled with self-promoting nonsense, and statements that raise many questions beyond the obvious ones flowing from the audit itself. Not one question from the committee members save for the one posed by the Chair, and it was a jaw-dropper, worthy of the Inspector Clouseau Award. As the esteemed Chair stated in wrapping up, “It looks like you got off easy today then.”
Yes, they did. And the general public should be wondering who else is getting off easy. With a possible share of five percent of sixteen billion dollars.
Categories: Auditor General, BC Hydro
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If my memory is correct I recall Prem. Campbell trying to take BC Hydro private from its status as a Crown Corp. A lot of BC citizens said hell no at the time but it may still be “on the table” for our government, because of the large and mounting debt, including contractual obligations.
The then government succeeded in taking BC Rail private in a very clownish and expensive way. Is it now BC Hydro’s turn?
If enough citizens want accountability then it is the courts next. From evidence you have uncovered , Norm, we must be getting close enough to at least mount a credible challenge.
Erik
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Every time I read Norm’s exceedingly informative posts, my blood pressures rises to a point of……………………. How can this massive grift continue?
The answer is simple, until the politicians have the moral fortitude to put an end to it and they do not!
Again, where is the mainstream media?
Nowhere like good little puppies they are.
Such a sad state of affairs, where the government abets criminal action.
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