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Legal loophole allows BC Hydro to avoid review of new clean energy projects
The Minister of Energy promised BC Hydro’s new clean energy projects would have BCUC oversight. A decades-old ministerial exemption order makes that a hollow promise. Introduction I’m sure readers of…
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The BCUC’s rejection of an Okanagan pipeline expansion might be a bad deal for ratepayers
A new $50 million stop-gap measure will leave the system at capacity again by 2029. The proposal rejected by the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) in 2023 is looking more and…
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It’s time for the Auditor General to examine BC Hydro’s deferral accounts (again)
BC Hydro will defer over a billion dollars of costs in the next three years without the independent approval of the BCUC. This could cause the Auditor General to qualify…
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How much will BC Hydro bills really go up on April 1?
The claim that BC Hydro bills will increase by an “average” of 3.75 percent contains enough spin to make you dizzy. In fact, almost 80 percent of BC Hydro residential…
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Was the BC government’s recent Order to the BCUC legal?
The Utilities Commission Act prevents the government from overriding a BCUC decision. It may have done just that. Introduction The BC government recently issued an Order to the BC Utilities…