Mike Smyth: Some First Nations Worried Clark Pulling Plug on IPP Deals Without Consultation

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Read this Province editorial from Michael Smyth on the growing sense that Premier Christy Clark is about to dump the Campbell private power program.

“B.C’s private-power gold rush was always Gordon Campbell’s baby. But
the new Clark regime seems intent to slam the brakes on private power,
rather than slam consumers with big electricity rate hikes in the run-up
to an election. But now, B.C.’s First Nations are raisng the stakes behind the scenes. I
obtained a letter from the province’s largest aboriginal groups – the
B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union
of B.C. Indian Chiefs – pleading with the government to talk to them
before cancelling dozens of projects.”

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