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.

News Release - October 30, 2009

News Release - October 20, 2009

VICTORIA- The B.C. Liberal government is interrupting a major review of British Columbia's transmission system to stack the deck in favour of their friends and donors in the private energy sector, says Opposition energy critic John Horgan.

"This latest decision to change the rules of an inquiry into taxpayer-funded infrastructure halfway through the process is more evidence that the B.C. Liberals want to muzzle our independent energy watchdog," said Horgan.

News Release - October 9, 2009

VICTORIA - Beginning January 2010, seniors in residential care facilities will be paying more -- $53.7 million more.  "The BC Liberal government's latest move to increase revenues comes at the expense of our province's most vulnerable seniors," said John Horgan, MLA for Juan de Fuca.

News Release - Sept. 22, 2009

VICTORIA- The B.C. Liberals' post-election renewed push to lift the ban on coastal oil drilling shows their environmental promises during the campaign were nothing more than hot air, say the Official Opposition.

News Release, August 19, 2009

Victoria - Reacting to an appeal court decision to uphold a Supreme Court ruling on CRD bylaws in the unincorporated areas of the CRD, Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan said it is "time for the provincial government to start talking about solutions to the problems unleashed by the removal of lands from Tree Farm licenses on Vancouver Island."