December 30, 2010 — Media Release — 2010: A banner year for
green energy in B.C....

Despite an uncertain and pessimistic start, 2010 has turned out to be a banner year for green energy development in B.C. and things are looking very positive for 2011 according to B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) co-spokesperson Bruce Sanderson... (click here to continue reading). 

December 11, 2010 — Letter to the Editor — Changes can be made to combat warming (by David Field, The Nanaimo Daily News: December 11, 2010)...

Although it sounds like something straight out of an Austin Powers movie, scientists at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun are seriously considering putting mirrors in space to reflect sunlight away from the earth and covering Greenland in a massive "blanket" so that it doesn't melt... (click here to continue reading). 

December 3, 2010 — Clean energy simpler than mirrors in space — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Although it sounds like something straight out of an Austin Powers movie, scientists at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun are seriously considering putting mirrors in space and sprinkling iron filings into the world’s oceans to reduce the impacts global warming... (click here to continue reading). 

November 24, 2010 — Dokie wind project up and running — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

As reported by Deborra Hope on Global News last night, British Columbia’s Largest Wind Farm, the Dokie Wind Project near Chetwynd, has started generating clean electricity... (click here to continue reading). 

November 23, 2010 — Moving bits as well as clean electrons — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

According to Chris Gailus’s report on Global News last week, and Jeff Lee’s article in the November 17th Vancouver Sun, work should begin this week on the quarter billion dollar Vancouver City Central Transmission (VCCT) Project.  The project is BC Hydro’s first major investment in Vancouver infrastructure in nearly 30 years... (click here to continue reading). 

November 17, 2010 — Run-of-river energy storage in Bella Coola — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Our recent media release applauding Powertech’s innovative Bella Coola HARP (Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Power) demonstration project —  a project that uses hydrogen to store renewable clean energy from the nearby Clayton Falls run-of-river facility  —  has generated a lot of interest and positive commentary... (click here to continue reading). 

November 13, 2010 — Letter to the Editor — Campbell was good for B.C. (By Bruce Sanderson, The Royal City Record: November 13, 2010).

When the premier stepped down last week, it was not so much surprising as it was unexpectedly sudden. But for how long can anyone be expected to ask their family to endure the extreme partisanship of B.C. politics and the kind of public exposure the Campbell family have had to endure?... (click here to continue reading).

November 3, 2010 — Media Release — BCCGE applauds run-of-river energy storage project...

B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) is applauding the successful launch of a state-of-the-art clean energy demonstration project in Bella Coola that uses hydrogen to store renewable clean energy generated by the nearby Clayton Falls run-of-river facility... (click here to continue reading).

November 1, 2010 — MLA Sather gets the facts wrong — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

David Field (one of our BCCGE co-spokespersons) had an excellent letter in last Tuesday’s Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times in which he refutes misinformation about run-of-river projects contained in an October 8th letter from NDP MLA Michael Sather.... (click here to continue reading).

October 25, 2010 — Sun’s “Feed In Tariff” editorial gets an “F” — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

It’s unanimous: The Vancouver Sun’s October 16th editorial regarding the province’s proposed Feed In Tariff gets an “F” for seriously misrepresenting the subject and getting the key facts completely wrong.... (click here to continue reading).

October 7, 2010 — Bruce’s mug in the Monday Province — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Opening the Vancouver Province last Monday morning held a special surprise for the boys in the BCCGE mailroom.  There on page A8 was a great photo of Bruce Sanderson along with an accompanying article inspired by our press release from last Thursday... (click here to continue reading).

September 30, 2010 — Media Release — Are you inadvertently being charged BC Hydro's Step 2 rate?...

Bruce Sanderson from B.C. Citizens for Green Energy is encouraging BC Hydro customers to check their hydro bills carefully to make sure they are not inadvertently being charged the higher "Step 2" rate for electricity they may not have consumed... (click here to continue reading).

September 21, 2010 — BCCGE presents to budget committee — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Our thanks to David Field for his excellent presentation on behalf of BCCGE last Thursday night to the province’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. MLAs from the BC Liberal and BC NDP parties sit on this “all-party” Legislative Assembly committee and they are currently travelling around the province seeking input on the upcoming 2011/12 provincial budget... (click here to continue reading).

September 17, 2010 — Media Release — BCCGE offers budget input to Select Standing Committeee...

The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is currently travelling around the province seeking input on the upcoming 2011/12 provincial budget; and last night in Surrey, David Field from B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) appeared before the committee to urge the committee to consider the revenue generating and debt reduction potential of B.C.'s unparalleled and largely untapped renewable green energy resources...(click here to continue reading).

August 12, 2010 — Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…? — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Composer George Gershwin obviously wasn’t thinking about renewable energy in B.C. when he set the words, “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy,” to music. Summertime in B.C. has proven to be just as busy as any other time of year for green energy news. Last summer, for example, the BC Utilities Commission won a booby prize for suggesting that B.C.’s growing electricity needs could be met by firing up the gas-fired, cold war era Burrard Thermal generating station near Port Moody... (click here to continue reading).

August 4, 2010 — B.C.’s declining electricity trade balance — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Last Thursday’s BCCGE media release which outlined B.C.’s declining trade balance in electricity struck a chord with a number of people and garnered several positive responses.  As always, we’re happy to do our part and help shake the B.C. public out of its energy-complacent state... (click here to continue reading).

July 29, 2010 — Media Release — Is B.C. running out of electricity?...

News that BC Hydro will significantly increase its reliance on imported electricity this year may come as a shock to many energy-complacent British Columbians, but not to B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) and its co-spokesperson David Field...(click here to continue reading).

July 21, 2010 — Solar power at Surrey housing complex — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Scott Simpson has an interesting article in today’s Vancouver Sun about a 127-unit social housing complex in Surrey that has become western Canada’s largest solar electricity installation... (click here to continue reading).

July 16, 2010 — BC Hydro increases electricity imports — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Scott Simpson’s article in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun provides an excellent example of the electricity import issue facing B.C.  Simpson reports that “Severe drought conditions in northeast British Columbia have BC Hydro bracing for a $220-million increase in electricity imports this fiscal year… because of low water volumes coming into its hydroelectric reservoirs.”... (click here to continue reading).

July 14, 2010 — An easy myth to bust — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Despite our group’s best efforts, there are still people out there claiming that BC Hydro can produce electricity cheaper than independent green energy producers.  The claim is completely dishonest because it’s based on a cost comparison between electricity production at BC Hydro’s aging mega dams (which were built and paid for decades ago) and the cost of electricity production from newly built generating facilities, which is what most green energy projects happen to be... (click here to continue reading).

July 6, 2010 — The BC Utilities Commission said what? — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Over the past couple of years, we’ve encountered some crazy distortions of the truth, some outright falsehoods, and some wild misinformation flowing out from the anti-green-energy movement — led to a large extent by the COPE 378 union representing BC Hydro’s thousands of public sector employees... (click here to continue reading).

June 22, 2010 — Keeping our day jobs under control — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

The past few weeks have been busy ones indeed for anyone following energy issues in B.C. We’ve seen passage of the new Clean Energy Act which pledges to open up an export market for B.C.’s renewable green energy resources in addition to making B.C. electricity self-sufficient.  We’ve also seen the announcement of another Electricity Purchase Agreement (EPA) under BC Hydro’s drawn out Clean Power Call (CPC) process... (click here to continue reading).

May 28, 2010 — Time to take off the COPE 378 blinders — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

One of our BCCGE correspondents recently spotted an “MLA Report” in the Kimberley Daily Bulletin (May 11, 2010 edition) from Columbia River – Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald... (click here to continue reading).

May 27, 2010 — Low snowpack equals electricity imports — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

It turns out that trucking snow from Manning Park to Cypress Bowl for the Winter Olympics was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the low snowpack conditions B.C. is seeing this year.  Still to come this summer are the potential for drought, forest fires and low reservoir levels behind BC Hydro’s hydroelectric mega dams... (click here to continue reading).

May 21, 2010 — B.C.’s renewable energy export opportunity — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Blair Lekstrom, B.C.’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, was in northern B.C. last week talking about the new Clean Energy Act.  The Prince Rupert Daily News reported on the Minister’s visit and it’s good to see the clean energy issue receiving some well-deserved attention and generating informed discussion... (click here to continue reading).

May 19, 2010 — Myths and Misinformation: Volume 2 — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Based on what we’ve seen over the past few years from the well-orchestrated campaign against B.C.’s independent green energy producers, it was inevitable that a new subgenre of myths and misinformation would arise in relation to the new BC Clean Energy Act... (click here to continue reading).

May 12, 2010 — B.C.’s road to electricity self-sufficiency — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

The Vancouver Sun’s energy specialist, Scott Simpson, had an interesting article in yesterday’s paper in which he noted that wind energy projects account for about half of the renewable electricity supply contracts recently awarded by BC Hydro under the soon-to-be concluded 2008 Clean Power Call... (click here to continue reading).

May 7, 2010 — The green energy cure for B.C.’s debt — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Columnist Keith Baldrey recently pointed out (in a column about the Site C project) that B.C.’s total provincial debt will hit almost $56 billion by 2012-13.  Definintely not an insubstantial amount.  Our recently released BCCGE Triple Legacy Report also beamed a spotlight on B.C.’s growing provincial debt and juxtaposed it to the considerable public revenue that could be generated for the people of B.C. by harnessing the province’s immense, but largely untapped, renewable green energy resources... (click here to continue reading).

May 6, 2010 — BC Hydro awards two more CPC EPAs — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

BC Hydro has just announced that two more green energy projects will be awarded electricity purchase agreements under the Clean Power Call. That leaves just two other projects still under consideration by BC Hydro... (click here to continue reading).

May 3, 2010 — BCCGE praises new Clean Energy Act — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

If you haven’t seen it already, we sent out a BCCGE media release last Friday applauding the new B.C. Clean Energy Act and the regulatory certainty it brings to the green energy sector — for energy producers and consumers alike... (click here to continue reading).

April 30, 2010 — Media Release — BCCGE praises new B.C. Clean Energy Act...

The newly unveiled B.C. Clean Energy Act is being praised by B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) for bringing regulatory certainty and creating a solid foundation for moving B.C.'s clean energy and green energy export sectors forward...(click here to continue reading).

April 28, 2010 — B.C. Clean Energy Act unveiled — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

The province has just unveiled the new Clean Energy Act and released the Green Energy Advisory Task Force report. In a press release, the Premier says the Clean Energy Act “opens the way to an exciting new age of economic growth and job creation by unleashing British Columbia’s full potential in clean energy, power smart technologies, environmental stewardship and climate action.”... (click here to continue reading).

April 28, 2010 — David gets the last word… maybe — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

We’ve lost track of the number of letters back and forth in the Penticton Herald between our BCCGE co-spokesperson, David Field, and the NDP’s former Penticton candidate, Cameron Phillips.  But based on Cameron Phillips’s most recent letter/OPED in the Herald, David appears to have had the last word on the “firm energy” question… maybe... (click here to continue reading).

April 27, 2010 — Wilderness Committee vs. Public Power? — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Well there’s certainly been plenty of reaction to last week’s Site C announcement; the guys in the BCCGE mail room are still sifting through it all.  But they’ve already spotted something that could prove interesting in a Godzilla meets Mothra kind of way... (click here to continue reading).

April 23, 2010 — Green energy opponents should take note — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Scott Simpson has an interesting article in today’s Vancouver Sun about Site C and it illustrates the environmental scrutiny renewable energy projects undergo in this province... (click here to continue reading).

April 22, 2010 — Field counters misinformation — Again! — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

You have to hand it to the opponents of independent green energy projects in B.C. — they are relentless in their systematic efforts to spread as much misinformation and distort as many facts as they possibly can... (click here to continue reading).

April 22, 2010 — Earth Day and the green energy economy — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Today is the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and our BCCGE co-spokesperson Gene Vickers has marked the occasion with a great letter to the editor about the opportunities we have to create a green energy economy – locally and globally – and the actions we need to take in response to the energy challenges facing our planet... (click here to continue reading).

April 21, 2010 — Site C clean energy project moves forward — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Monday’s announcement that the Site C project is moving forward comes as no surprise: The project has been talked about for several decades and there was direct mention of it in the last two Speeches from the Throne... (click here to continue reading).

April 15, 2010 — Green energy facts trump misinformation — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Our BCCGE co-spokesperson David Field has a letter in today’s Penticton Herald.  The letter rebuts several inaccurate claims made by former Penticton NDP candidate Cameron Phillips about green energy projects in BC... (click here to continue reading).

March 30, 2010 — B.C. run-of-river impresses California group — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Justine Hunter’s article about Site C in this morning’s Globe and Mail also had some interesting news about a delegation of California legislators and environmentalists who toured the Ashlu run-of-river facility near Squamish last week (part of a fact-finding visit to B.C.)... (click here to continue reading).

March 26, 2010 — Run-of-River generates “firm energy” — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

We recently received an email from a British Columbia MLA asking why, in a media release about BC Hydro’s Clean Power Call, we had referred to run-of-river power as “firm energy.”   Sadly, the MLA, like many people, was under the mistaken belief that run-of-river “facilities produce most of their power during the spring – early summer.”... (click here to continue reading).

March 16, 2010 — BC Hydro awards 19 clean energy contracts — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

After many lengthy delays, BC Hydro has finally taken a long overdue step in their 2008 Clean Power Call (CPC) process and selected 19 clean energy projects for Electricity Purchase Agreements (EPA).  Our congratulations to all of the successful green energy producers who were awarded EPAs last week... (click here to continue reading).

March 12, 2010 — Green energy could pay off B.C.’s debt — BCCGE Livewire Blog...

Last Monday (March 8th), we released a new research report exploring B.C.’s immense potential for generating renewable green energy and the substantial revenue that could be generated for the people of B.C. through an effective export policy... (click here to continue reading).

March 12, 2010 — Media Release — BC Hydro's 19 clean energy contracts are 'a drop in the bucket'...

After many lengthy delays, BC Hydro has finally taken a long overdue step and selected 19 clean energy projects for Electricity Purchase Agreements under its Clean Power Call... (click here to continue reading).

March 8, 2010 — Media Release — Green energy could pay off B.C.'s debt...

B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) has just released a new research report exploring B.C.'s immense potential for generating renewable green energy and the substantial revenue that could be generated for the people of B.C. through an effective export policy... (click here to continue reading).

February 9, 2010 — Media Release — BCCGE applauds throne speech commitment to green energy...

B.C. Citizens for Green Energy are applauding this afternoon's Speech from the Throne and the strong commitment it makes to green energy development in B.C.... (click here to continue reading).

January 28, 2010 — Media Release — Rafe Mair launches nuclear attack on B.C....

Recent comments by former radio personality Rafe Mair, in which Mair suggests B.C. should be looking at nuclear power as an energy option, has B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) scratching their heads... (click here to continue reading).

January 13, 2010 — Media Release — Is red tape stifling green energy progress in B.C.?...

Bruce Sanderson of B.C. Citizens for Green Energy (BCCGE) says this week's "Red Tape Awareness Week" sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is a timely reminder that -- while a certain amount of regulation is important for efficiency and safety -- an excessive amount of regulation and red tape can have serious negative consequences for B.C. and the B.C. economy... (click here to continue reading).

 

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