News Release - July 6, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Transmission Corporation moved back under B.C. Hydro control Monday, seven years after the B.C. Liberals tore apart the Crown corporation. The move marks the end of an expensive failed experiment and proves that the B.C. Liberals should not be making important energy decisions without public scrutiny, say New Democrats.

News Release - June 1, 2010

VICTORIA - The Official Opposition are vowing to fight the B.C. Liberals' Clean Energy Act in the legislature this week. The bill would allow $10 billion in spending without appropriate public oversight, remove consumer protection from unnecessary hydro rate hikes and shift more of British Columbians' money into the hands of private power companies, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - May 7, 2010

VICTORIA - The Official Opposition is pleased that the B.C. Liberals have promised to shelve a private power project that threatened to devastate a huge swath of wilderness on B.C.'s mid-coast.

Under questioning in the legislature on Wednesday by Opposition MLA for North Island Claire Trevena, Environment Minister Barry Penner promised not to allow the Klinaklini River private power project go ahead.

News Release - Apr. 29, 2010

VICTORIA - The introduction of the Clean Energy Act has gutted the regulatory powers of the B.C. Utilities Commission, and will lead to further rate increases for B.C. Hydro customers, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - March 11, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberal government is forging ahead with plans to subsidize the private power industry at the expense of all British Columbians with the awarding of contracts worth untold millions of dollars, says Opposition energy critic John Horgan.

"Under the direction of the B.C. Liberal government, B.C. Hydro has announced a commitment today to buy thousands of gigawatt-hours of electricity we may not even need, with more on the way," said Horgan.

News Release - January 28, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberals are mismanaging the opportunity to develop an energy plan that is in the best interest of British Columbians through their secretive, closed-door approach to hearings into electricity policy, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - January 15, 2010

VICTORIA - A major shift in how B.C. Hydro contracts are awarded could force the closure of more than 30 small businesses around the province, costing dozens of family-supporting jobs, the New Democrats said today.

News Release - December 17, 2009

VICTORIA - Clean energy recommendations delivered today by an alliance of many of the province's top environmental organizations are a positive start to a conversation about the future of energy policy in British Columbia, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - November 21, 2009

VICTORIA - By appointing friends and insiders to the Energy Task Force, the BC Liberals have made it clear the initiative is about little more than justifying their plan to line the pockets of private power producers, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - November 6, 2009

VICTORIA- The B.C. Liberal government is putting a clean, green public energy project in jeopardy so they can justify buying expensive electricity from their private power industry friends and donors, say New Democrats.