BC Hydro under attack....

The following is from a column by Robin Matthews in Vive le Canada

What is the core of the theft in B.C.?

Having promised not to privatize B.C. Hydro, the most valuable water generating electric system in North America, Gordon Campbell is destroying it.

One. By his 2002 B.C. Energy Plan B.C. Hydro is prevented permanently from developing further electrical generation and is being forced to buy from private generators.

Two. Campbell is burying B.C. Hydro in billions of dollars of debt through advance energy purchase agreements with those private corporations.

Three. Campbell has opened all B.C.’s hundreds of rivers to virtual gift-takeovers by a network of ugly, often foreign, often U.S. corporations.

Four. He has passed legislation – Bill 30 – which prevents all B.C. Municipalities from having any power over zoning of electrical generating facilities erected by private (many foreign) corporations on B.C. rivers. In effect, he has strangled the democratic rights of B.C. Municipalities. .

Five. Campbell has forced B.C. Hydro to out-source a third of its staff to Accenture, a highly dubious Bermuda-based operation. All metering, billing, and financial services of B.C. Hydro have been handed to Accenture by the B.C. government. Accenture came into being from its original life as Arthur Anderson Consulting which was so implicated in the Enron scandal it was virtually destroyed and had to disappear. Its reappearance is as Accenture. It is now a major “partner” in the B.C. water generated energy system.
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Take the time and read the full story - it's worth the time.

We will not be taken down this path - regardless of the front any one man might present. Money wants more money!