I have listened to Powering the Future a few times. There is much information to be gained, and a little misinformation was politely ignored. Check it out.
BC Hydro Chair Glen Clark should be applauded for joining the panel for a 90 minute conversation. Fellow panelists Jae Mather and Markham Hislop showed their broad knowledge of energy matters.
I believe that BC Hydro is gearing up to build another dam on the Peace River, this time close to the Alberta border. The consultants are all ready for another 15 years of lucrative employment. British Columbia’s public utility has been focused on hydropower since the company was formed in the 1960s. Corporate inertia keeps them on that path, even if new electricity costs more than double that from alternatives. Wind and solar power with battery storage can provide the least cost energy.
Why is more power needed in B.C. in the next several years? To serve the fracked gas industry, including LNG processing. AI data centres need massive amounts of power to replace all the humans that used to provide customer service.
This is what renewable expert Jai Mathers thinks about AI.
A Cornell University found that LNG from fracked natural gas is worse than coal. Yet the BC government spends heavily to promote its “clean energy” strategy. It spends even more subsidizing LNG processors.
Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study.
The emissions of methane and carbon dioxide released during LNG’s extraction, processing, transportation and storage account for approximately half of its total greenhouse gas footprint, Howarth said.
Over 20 years, the carbon footprint for LNG is one-third larger than coal, when analyzed using the measurement of global warming potential, which compares the atmospheric impact for different greenhouse gases. Even on a 100-year time scale – a more-forgiving scale than 20 years – the liquefied natural gas carbon footprint equals or still exceeds coal, Howarth said.
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How is Worksafe BC improved by axing its fraud unit?
Canada’s largest construction association is not impressed.
https://icba.ca/bc-blog/worksafebc-just-killed-its-fraud-investigation-unit.-guess-who-pays?province=BC
WorkSafeBC Just Killed Its Fraud Investigation Unit. Guess Who Pays?
On January 27, 2026, WorkSafeBC informed its entire Field Investigations Division — 20 specially trained fraud investigators — that the department “did not align with WSBC’s strategic priorities” and would be shut down by April 30. The fraud tip line technically still exists, but it’s being monitored by an administrative assistant. Nobody is actioning the tips.
Nobody will be investigating WorkSafe claimants who may be faking, exaggerating or otherwise taking money from the people who actually need it.
British Columbia is about to become the only province in Canada where no one is investigating workers’ compensation fraud.
The whistleblower’s account is damning. Before they killed the unit, they kneecapped it: a 26-step procedure to initiate even basic investigations beyond routine social media searches. A process so absurdly onerous that claims managers stopped making referrals.
Oversight by lawyers and managers who, according to investigators, didn’t understand the Workers Compensation Act. Irrefutable evidence of fraud submitted up the chain, only to have upper management pretend it didn’t exist and keep paying benefits.
So first they made the unit too dysfunctional to succeed. Then they pointed to its lack of results as justification for shutting it down.
The investigators didn’t go quietly. They sent a letter to the Labour Minister warning that “allowing fraud to go unchecked will cause lost jobs, lower wages, and higher costs for goods and services — in part because employers are forced to pay higher premium rates to cover increased claim costs.” To date, the Minister has not responded.
More common sense from the letter: “Fraud strains WSBC’s resources and damages our credibility with the public. The Field Investigation department identifies abuses of the system which saves the system an untold amount of money. It will not be possible to maintain a financially sustainable system without investigating and addressing fraud.”
WorkSafeBC’s spin is predictable. They claim fraud work has been realigned to Claims and Rehabilitation Services and Prevention Services, and that they still have a tip line.
Don’t buy it. The investigators themselves say it’s “simply not possible for this work to be absorbed by other untrained departments.” Fraud investigation is a specialized skill. You don’t get good at it by adding it to a claims adjudicator’s to-do list. And parking it inside Prevention Services — the enforcement arm — makes no operational sense. This is reorganization as camouflage.
Think about what this signals. If you’re a bad actor looking to game B.C.’s workers’ compensation system, the province just rolled out a welcome mat. The tip line goes to a voicemail. The investigators are gone. Nobody’s coming to check on you.
And who picks up the tab? Employers. As always.
The same people who fund 100% of this system, who’ve driven injury rates down for decades, and who now get to watch the NDP expand WorkSafeBC’s mandate in every direction except the one that protects the fund from theft.
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BC’s “old” New Democratic Party took Climate Change “very seriously”. That’s what they said.
According to The Tyee the “new“ New Democratic Party looks different. Like this:
“BC Cuts Climate Agency, Sends Some Staff to Work on Pipelines”
“Experts say CleanBC has gone up in smoke.”
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/25/BC-Cuts-Climate-Agency/
B.C. has quietly eliminated its Climate Action Secretariat, the long-running agency that produced and implemented climate policy across government ministries.
In an email to staff viewed by The Tyee, Peter Pokorny, deputy minister of energy and climate solutions, said that “to align with key priorities” some secretariat staff would move to new subject matter, including supporting LNG, pipelines and gas fracking.
Sven Biggs, campaign director for Stand.earth, described the move as part of the “slow-motion death” of the province’s climate plan, CleanBC, which the secretariat was tasked to steward.
“We don’t have a plan to meet our 2030 target, and we’re not trying to develop one,” he said.
First launched by Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government in 2007, the Climate Action Secretariat was designed to sit above the ministry-level fray to ensure that climate policy was integrated across all departments.
After a decade-long lull, its powers were resurrected in 2018 to implement the NDP’s CleanBC climate plan, which promised to reduce emissions by 40 per cent by 2030.
Now, with just four years to go until that deadline, B.C.’s emissions are spiking, driven in large part by fracking operation expansions. Last year, the province acknowledged it won’t meet its 2030 goal.
The Tyee has learned this includes at least 10 of the secretariat’s former staff members.
Other staff will be moved to a newly formed “climate solutions” division within the Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions, which will also bring in staff from the now-folded “energy decarbonization division.” The new division will focus on some of the secretariat’s previous responsibilities, including emissions accounting and efforts to reduce emissions in sectors like buildings, transportation and industry.
This month Vancouver closed its sustainability department, which ran its core climate policies, including an expansive zero-emission building program.
In an email to The Tyee, the city described the move as part of a “targeted departmental reorganization,” noting that staff have been moved to other positions within other city departments “so planning and policy decisions are more directly embedded.”
Vancouver Coun. Pete Fry described the city’s position as “a bit of a spin.”
“They have effectively eliminated the sustainability department without saying as much,” he said.
Vancouver, like B.C., is on track to fail its commitment to reduce emissions, including its goal to reduce them by 50 per cent by 2030.
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Questions about the reality of Climate Change were resolved recently by a Minnesota politician.
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/03/minnesota-legislator-climate-change-isnt#google_vignette
Minnesota House of Representatives GOP Rep. Mary Franson explained that she is not worried about climate change because the Bible doesn’t prescribe it for the End Times.
FRANSON: And that’s why, when we talk about climate change, I don’t get upset about it, I don’t get worked up about it, is because my faith is not in climate change.
It’s not in scientists dictating what we should and should not do to save the environment, because my faith is in Jesus Christ, right?
He’s the same today, tomorrow, and forever, and yesterday. And so, you know, if you’ve read the good book, you know how it ends.
It’s not with climate change.
And that’s my closing speech.
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