Home

About us

Contact us

Media releases

Research
Resources

The BCCGE
Livewire Blog



 


Latest news
and updates


Twitter
@GreenEnergyBC

Facebook

YouTube

Green energy
sources for B.C.

Why B.C. needs
green energy

Why BC Hydro
can't supply it

Articles of interest

Straight
answers to
persistent myths

Who stands
in the way?

Go to top of page

 

The Wilderness Committee’s
political agenda

After COPE 378, the Wilderness Committee has been the most prominent group opposing independently produced green energy in B.C. Supposedly an environmental organization, the WC pursues a political agenda.

The WC didn’t oppose independently produced green energy when the NDP was in power. Roughly half the run-of-river projects now supplying electricity in B.C. were approved during the NDP era.

The WC says it will support run of river if BC Hydro develops it. But there’s no reason to think BC Hydro could achieve even higher environmental standards than the independents.

So the WC’s opposition isn’t environmental. It’s political.

The WC works closely with COPE 378, which would be a strange ally if the WC were an environmental group. A BC Hydro union, COPE 378 supports restoring the Burrard Thermal gas-fired plant to full capacity despite the plant’s serious environmental problems. When Burrard Thermal was running at full capacity, it was one of the region’s worst sources of greenhouse gases and other air pollution.

By no means a grassroots group, the WC has a $2.26-million budget. The WC spends part of that money to employ paid fundraisers, illustrating the adage that it takes money to make money.

Despite its political agenda, the Wilderness Committee is a registered charity.

Big money backs the campaign against clean electricity

COPE 378, home of the whopper

COPE 378 gets it wrong, wrong, wrong

More expensive propaganda from COPE 378

The Wilderness Committee’s political agenda

The Save Our Rivers Society: Money brings it from anonymity to celebrity

B.C. Citizens for Public Power: This is a grassroots group?

The Council of Canadians: Forever nationalist, sometimes

Take Back the Power... and give it to COPE 378

A Nobel Prize laureate demolishes the work of John Calvert and Marvin Shaffer

John Calvert and BC BookWorld