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BC government to blame for looming BC Hydro rate increases
BC Hydro rates are going up. In its rate application hearing before the BC Utilities Commission last year, BC Hydro forecast increases of some 10% per year for 5 years…
Clean Energy Act will cost billions for BC
While the HST has captured all the attention, the province’s passage of the Clean Energy Act in the recent legislative session is a far more serious matter. The Act will…
Flawed analysis props up BC public private partnerships
Many will have heard Premier Gordon Campbell and his cabinet colleagues talk in glowing terms about public private partnerships (P3s) for major projects like hospitals, highways, bridges and sewage treatment….
The Real Cost of the Sea-to-Sky P3
A Critical Review of Partnerships BC’s Value for Money Assessment Download 134.38 KB7 pages…
The P3 approach to financing transit projects will cost us more
It is more than a little mischievous for the provincial government and regional politicians to welcome the private sector contributing to the massive cost of the transportation infrastructure planned for…
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