beautiful geographically and socially.
There's been numerous conversations about the ipp (independent power projects?)
here is a list of questions, as posed by Rafe Mair, of the Tyee
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/02/02/PrivateRivers/
1. Why the lack of real consultation?
2. Where's the proof that we need more power and, if we do, are there alternatives?
3. Experts tell us -- so does BC Hydro, for that matter -- that with conservation, upgrading present facilities and adding generators on existing dams plus taking back the power we're entitled to under the Columbia River Treaty, we have no need for many years for more power. So why are going down the privatization route?
4. Why is BC Hydro not permitted to create any new power?
5. Why are we giving away to large corporations the hundreds of millions of dollars BC Hydro puts into the public purse every year to help with schools, hospitals and the like?
6. Why is BC Hydro forced by the government to enter contracts for energy with private producers which cost Hydro more than they can sell it for -- buy high, sell low is a strange policy especially for a capitalist government!
7. Why are we approving intermittent power, which only can be produced during the spring run-off?
8. What will be the effect of NAFTA? Will it mean that any American company with rights on a river has all rights, including the right to export it?
9. Will it mean that as long as the American company uses the river, it can ignore the time limit in the lease? The answer to each is probably "yes."
10. Why are we disabling BC Hydro so that it must go broke under the proposed policy?
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