The B.C. government continually chooses to sell power that belongs to us under the Columbia River Treaty to the U.S. for profit, instead of using that power to meet B.C.’s electricity needs. There are also dams on the Columbia River in B.C.that do not even have generators installed in them. BC Hydro’s chairman, Mossadiq Umedaly, has said that he sees his role as being "To bring the Crown Corporation from a net importer of electricity to a net exporter." A recent California study shows that, by 2016, B.C. will have 30,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of extra electricity.
In B.C.’s 2007 Electricity Conservation Potential Review, BC Hydro’s president and CEO says that "we strongly believe that we can go beyond the 50% [of new demand] conservation target set out by the 2007 B.C. Energy Plan and lead a change such that in 2027 we would return to 2007 electricity consumption levels while allowing for growth and economic prosperity." However, in BC Hydro’s Site C literature, they claim that B.C.’s electricity needs will continue to rise steadily through 2025.
The power from Site C will clearly not be for us and is not necessary. The destruction of a valley for the sake of providing power to be wasted is a great waste of the valley itself.
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Hi Pamela,
Your blog entry on the contradiction between Bob Elton's best-case conservation scenario and BC Hydro's own through-the-roof forecast is really perceptive.
Your comments, combined with Sandra Hoffman's recent work, continue to raise legitimate doubts about the whole premise underlying the purported need for Site C.
I hope you and Sandra have an opportunity to make your points and request answers at the upcoming open house meeting in FSJ.
Steve
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