Read this recent guest column in the Province by the Wilderness Committee’s Gwen Barlee on why the Clark Government should cancel its failed private power program.

“It is possible we have turned a corner. The B.C. government’s panel
recommendation to redefine “selfsufficiency” is a step in the right
direction. But much more needs to be done if Victoria is serious about
protecting our wallets and rivers from private-power developments. The
provincial government needs to implement an immediate ban on
run-of-river projects. At the moment there are scores of unneeded
projects that have contracts with B.C. Hydro but have yet to be built
that would cost untold billions of dollars. These projects need to be
stopped. Existing power contracts also need to be opened up and examined
to see if they are in the public good. The Clean Energy Act, which
hobbles B.C. Hydro, must be revisited.” (Sept 9, 2011)