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Our Price:
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's Information and Privacy Commissioner is holding an inquiry into the government's demand for nearly $173,000 to process a request by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund for the names of corporate polluters.
The non-profit environmental organization had asked the provincial government to release information about which B.C. companies have violated environmental laws and regulations.
But the government has written back to the group stating that processing the request will cost $172,947.50.
The LINO* Club Price:
The Independent Power Producers Association** of BC represents private-power developers who have been handed a virtual monopoly on the creation of new electricity in B.C. through the provincial government’s 2002 energy plan. IPPBC members stand to make billions over the next couple of decades selling power—not just to BC Hydro and to the province, but to American buyers who may pay more for it.......
.....The money is so easy, it’s hard to know where to start. But a useful comparison might be with the oil-and-gas companies. At least they actually have to look for those energy resources. Not so the private power producers. In 1983 (and again in 2000 and 2002), the provincial government funded major studies of small hydro sites across the province, listing the locations, the amount of energy that could likely be produced, and various other critical data. All this is available for free to applicants.
As Rafe Mair said awhile back, just before he was canned for, we think, hammering too hard on all things environmental and fiscal......'It appears these people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.'
Which is very likely true.
But that realization will be cold comfort indeed when we wake up bleary eyed after the big party in 2010 and realize that none of this province is ours anymore.
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*Liberal In Name Only
** ie. The 'Club'
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