I published the following piece about two years ago. It came to mind after I noticed Black Press writer Tom Fletcher claiming on Twitter that the Shawnigan toxic waste dump on a […]
"Veritable sewer of skullduggery"
Questions for BC Liberal by-election candidates
One day after Kelowna Liberal MLA Ben Stewart resigned in 2013, unelected Christy Clark called a by-election so that she could seek election and continue as Premier. Weeks later, Stewart was rewarded […]
Medical services poverty program
Readers of an age to receive a monthly Old Age Security cheque will be thrilled to notice a 57¢ increase in January. As I mentioned on Twitter, cautious saving of that amount […]
Why the rush to spend billions?
BC Hydro’s own sales records demonstrate Site C is not needed. Domestic consumption of electricity has been flat for more than a decade and technological efficiencies indicate we will need less power, […]
A reader comments
I’ve been reporting information taken from annual and quarterly reports of BC Hydro. There are important economic issues and billions of dollars at stake and the people who benefit from the way […]
Buy high, sell low
In the six months ended September 30, BC Hydro purchased 7,640 GWh of electricity from independent power producers. It paid $599 million, which is $78,400 per GWh. In the same period, BC […]
Proceed without caution
Even slightly aware BC citizens know that Premier Clark and her accomplices are incompetent. Liberal managers include not a single person capable of completing a basic course in strategic decision making. The […]
Can we talk about fast ferries instead?
From a presentation by renowned columnist Erik Andersen on CBC: …After BC Hydro made all the IPP contracts Premier Campbell found that California did not consider “run of river” generation green. Not […]
Takin’ Care of Business
These charts demonstrate that rewarding influential friends and caring for business is a prime BC Liberal purpose. Despite a decade of flat domestic demand, BC Hydro continues to add unneeded capacity and […]
How "clean" is BC’s natural gas industry?
Methane: The other important greenhouse gas, Environmental Defense Fund: By emitting just a little bit of methane, mankind is greatly accelerating the rate of climatic change. – Steve Hamburg EDF Chief Scientist […]
Fewer words, more pictures
Province defends Massey Bridge as top pick for federal grants, Jeff Nagel, Black Press, December 21, 2015: Transportation Minister Todd Stone is defending the province’s decision to make the replacement of the […]
Deceit as government policy
Writing in The Tyee, Damien Gillis provides the best analysis I’ve seen of Christy Clark’s LNG fantasies. Read it and share it. Three Fibs Premier Clark Uses to Sell LNG Dream Sorry, […]
Fluid mechanics
A 2-inch pipe between 1/2-inch pipes will not increase flow but will increase costs. #bcpoli #RichmondBC #surreybc pic.twitter.com/3elfTRRLbo — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) December 19, 2015 H/T: RobS More lanes, less congestion? […]
Pammy’s progress
RossK’s The Gazetteer, in This Day In Clarkland…Pammy’s Progress, featured a Tweet of BC’s NotSenator Pam talking with Burke Mountain Liberals in Coquitlam. I couldn’t not reply. .@pamelamartin_bc kicks off our candidate […]
It’s a start
B.C. Liberal party executive director resigns, facing criminal charges in Ontario, CBC News, December 17, 2015: Laura Miller charged with breach of trust, mischief, and misuse of a computer system to commit […]
Flaws of classic cars
In moments of honesty, we older folks will admit the cars of our youth are better in memory than they were in reality. I knew a man who lovingly restored an early […]
Gas production ↑ 85%, public revenue ↓ 90%
Premier Clark averred that meeting needs of children in government care is dependent on new funding from new industrial and commercial activities in British Columbia… That condition was not applied to construction of the Site C dam that will ultimately cost $10-$15 billion. Nor was it applied to about $10 billion of road and bridge construction in the lower mainland or $1 billion spent to deliver subsidized power to Murray Edwards’ Red Chris mine. Nor was it a condition precedent when Clark wanted to expand the size of her cabinet or hire yet more government spin doctors. A $200 million tax break for our richest citizens did not depend on new economic activity.
Adele – for those who don’t know already
From December 2011, when I first noticed the British star: I may be late but 2011 was the year I discovered brilliant young English singer-songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Salon.com calls her […]
Rich lands, poor people
GDP measures income, but not equality, it measures growth, but not destruction, and it ignores values like social cohesion and the environment. – OECD If a province allows extraction of natural resources […]
Distortions and half-truths but mostly outright lies
February 13, 2013, three months before her first general election as Premier, Christy Clark announced: …the new British Columbia Prosperity Fund to ensure communities, First Nations and all British Columbians benefit from […]
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