Site C Dam Not Required, British Columbia Could Save $15 Billion Dollars

That`s my answer to all provincial political parties, I would never give money to the corrupt BC Liberal Government or party, the Greens are not a political force as of yet and the BC NDP is lost in the wilderness, although that hasn`t stopped them from sending me at least 300 emails in the last two months asking for money...Requests coming in Carole James, David Eby, John Horgan`s name and a dozen others, plus continual asks from the Federal side of the NDP party for casholla....

The answer is HELL NO...!

To be perfectly clear, Thomas Mulcair squandered Jack Layton`s foot in the door opportunity he left the NDP....I`ll vote for Kennedy Stewart in Burnaby only because he`s a shoe-in for re-election but as for the Federal NDP`s chance of forming government or opposition, it`s over, caput, as in cooked goose ala orange sauce..

Thomas Mulcair is very smart, yet very stupid on the federal scene, when he was questioning Stephen Harper like a court prosecutor...He should of asked one or two questions then moved on, call Stephen Harper a liar, a thief, a law breaker and be done with it, stop beating a dead horse who refuses to answer questions over and over again..

Why do opposition leaders pussyfoot around, Stephen Harper won`t answer any questions in QP,..Same as in our British Columbia Legislature, question period is a joke, an insult to democracy, any and all questions asked answered with "Fast ferries or back in the 90`s"...Why even bother with question period, its time has come and gone, that or change the rules and mandate answers to questions asked must be on point, outlaw deflection and strawmen answers..

Thomas Mulcair needed to make his accusations then move on...Thomas Mulcair blew it...Then there is playing partisan politics with sexually assaulted elected NDP members...

You Thomas Mulcair want to quiz Stephen Harper like a prosecutor in Question period, same questions over and over again and now you want rape victims, elected NDP rape victims to hide away, out of fear of what may lay ahead?

Tell their names Thomas Mulcair, bring them forward as strong NDP MPs, have them elected NDP MPs name those who assaulted them, give details in a public court, have them stand tall, stand proud and announce to the world that...

We ladies have had enough and we won`t take it anymore...Charges will be laid and let the chips fall where they may..

No, weakness and cowardice was shown, any election chances Thomas Mulcair had vanished when he tried to play politics and pin some blame on Justin Trudeau for acting decisively..A low point for the NDP..

Our BC NDP  at present is not much better....They want money, more money, more more more and for what, for less opposition, less vote share, less seats than 2009...The BC NDP spent record amounts of money in the 2013election, $millions of dollars for Adrian Dix to lay down, throw the election...Yes I said throw the election..

I sent dozens of articles directly to Adrian Dix during the writ period, I phoned, left messages and was all but ignored, Adrian Dix muzzled all his candidates during our 2013 provincial election, he knew better, his advisers, there was so much ammunition available to target the corrupt BC Liberals...

BC Hydro debt, deferral accounts, the BC Ferry mess, massive and growing ever faster BC debt...Run of river financial boondoggles...child support Clawbacks, BC leading Canada in child poverty, every damn year! , scandal after scandal...quick wins..Bollywood..Burnaby hospital..Shenanigans in the premiers office...Scandals in Prince George..Brian Bonney..Kim Haakstad...Dimitri...The list was endless, payoffs to Basi n Virk...Where were the attack ads during the election, where the hell did the election money go...Right down the damn toilet, that`s where..

Oh indeed, Adrian Dix sat on his hands, smirked and smiled as the BC Liberals and their surrogates called him a thief, embezzler, forger, liar...Goddamn stupid back-dated memo...

I wrote an article before Adrian Dix by hook and by crook stole that leadership contest from John Horgan and Mike Farnworth.....This is what I wrote..Verbatim..

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"Adrian Dix, a pit bull, antagonistic, aggressive and capable, however, unfortunately Adrian brings out visceral feelings in people, he`s a love em or hate em type guy and those who hate him really hate him, personally speaking if Adrian didn`t have two sets of baggage with him I might have considered voting for him, the first set is the infamous memo-gate, Dix back dated a memo to cover Glen Clark`s rear end and got caught, that wasn`t a mistake of spoken words it was planned and executed, the Liberals will key on that in election ads and it will hurt, actually it`s fatal, that would be hard enough to overcome by itself but when you add in the sack of cash separate from the stack of memberships Adrian dropped off at the deadline for new members, I`ve been told a few hundred of those ballots have been rejected...

I suspect the BC Liberals would run an election ad like this....The caption, (A young Adrian Dix), they show a young Adrian sneaking into an office using white out on a document then return it to the file, then the next caption...(An older Adrian Dix)..They show a man with sacks of cash and stacks of memberships laughing and tee heeing, it would doom our party..But Adrian Dix would be a marvelous health minister."

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2011/04/born-to-lead-honourable-john-hogan.html

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I predicted exactly what was going to happen with Adrian Dix as leader, and yes, the pollsters fooled me too, however halfway through the election writ period it was apparent what was happening, a relative who works up in the north told me that everyone he talked to up north hated the NDP,...And hated Adrian Dix even more, Adrian Dix made our northern neighbors squirm..!

Stupid me ...I tried my best to save the party, was posting one to two articles per day during the writ period trying to save the party...Couldn`t do it, Adrian Dix was too damn toxic...

And to be perfectly honest, I haven`t seen very much fight out of the NDP party under John Horgan, oh sure he`s brought up the before the election scandals that our blind BC Liberal beholden media swept under the carpets, those are over and done little issues now, ...Our B.C. media will not cover these stories of the past, in fact our media won`t give the NDP the time of day in the present, to expect British Columbia`s ThreeRingCircus media clowns to backtrack and report on the stories and scandals they ignored in the past....One word..Delusional.

John Horgan, a very smart man, sharp as a tack but but blind as a bat when it comes to some realities, perceived or otherwise..

The media is not the NDP`s friend, never will be, all the year-end interviews John Horgan gave...Michael Smyth spent most of his article quoting Christy Clark..Vaughn Palmer put words out of context in Horgan`s mouth..Tom Fletcher made John Horgan look like the biggest flip-flopping weather vane ever to hold opposition leadership.

In late December/2014....A couple of weeks after Christy Clark told Bloomberg in New York that British Columbia didn`t need Site C dam for the proposed LNG industry, Christy Clark also told Bloomberg the price of Site C was going up by potentially $billions of dollars, we are looking at $10 to $15 billion dollars to build Site C...Possibly $15 billion dollars for a very tiny bite of electric  power...Expensive power, power we don`t need for LNG...The one group that looked at Site C and BC Hydro`s power for the future projected growth model...They came to the conclusion the power was not required, the case not made..!

Meaning there is no need to spend $15 billion dollars we don`t have, no need to put BC Hydro over $20 billion dollars in debt($15 billion plus the $billions of debt hidden in BC Hydro`s deferral accounts),  BC Hydro would have as a crown corporation almost as much debt as British Columbia had when the BC Liberals came into power in 2001...Our provincial debt in 2001, including contractual debt, crown debt stood at that time about $28 billion dollars(now it`s almost $80 billion dollars, not counting contractual debt and crown corporation debt)...And these BC Liberals want to add $15 billion dollars in more debt for power we don`t need?..

 http://commonsensecanadian.ca/bc-hydro-inflates-demand-justify-site-c-dam/

Here are Christy Clark`s own words.

"LNG is our priority in British Columbia and we don’t need to do Site C in order to fuel up the LNG industry,” Clark said, adding she ran for office on a pledge to establish the sector."

 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-10/british-columbia-clark-optimistic-on-lng-despite-oil-rout.html

Christy Clark`s mouth says we don`t need to spend $billions of dollars that we don`t have on Site C for LNG..

And guess who else says we don`t need Site C...

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"The retired head of the Association of Major Power Users of BC, Dan Potts, estimates the proposed Site C Dam would lose $350 million a year for taxpayers and BC Hydro ratepayers. The 30-year pulp mill manager told media in Vancouver yesterday that the project, estimated to cost $8 Billion or more, is “fundamentally uneconomic” – based on its outmoded technology and power trading prices that are likely to remain far lower than the cost of electricity produced by Site C.

Potts made the comments at a press conference organized by the District of Hudson’s Hope – where the 80 km-long reservoir would be located – to raise concerns about Site C in advance of the federal cabinet’s ruling on the project, expected this Fall.

Potts and other speakers, including agrologists, farmers, First Nations leaders and elected officials from the region, called for the BC Utilities Commission’s oversight of the project to be restored. The independent energy watchdog was stripped by the BC Liberal Government of its usual role of reviewing a project based on issues like cost and need. In the absence of that review, Potts worries that a project which makes no economic sense may receive unjustified approval.
“This project is turning gold into lead,” said Potts.

It’s going to have a legacy of wealth destruction…It’s going to sap the province’s ability to raise money and borrow money, to do other things, such as infrastructure, hospitals, schools – all the things we need to do."

 http://commonsensecanadian.ca/VIDEO-detail/fundamentally-uneconomic-site-c-dam-lose-350-million-year-taxpayers-industrial-energy-expert/

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So here we have experts, and he`s not alone, calling Site C a boondoggle in the making, a very expensive boondoggle, not only will it cost much more than $10 billion, interest payments on that debt will be $400 million per year....And it will lose on average another $350 million per year in direct losses...

All in, this project could end up costing BC taxpayers $30 billion dollars after interest payments and operating costs...for power we don`t need.

The BC NDP should refuse to even enter our provincial legislature until Site C is taken off next summer`s starting date agenda...You see readers, friends, British Columbians, there is time for a strong opposition to fight for British Columbia, that time is now, before the legislature opens...How many days do politicians need off, vacationing, sitting on their over-paid asses!

We must demand that Site C go to a non partisan regulator, or non-partisan committee...Like the BCUC...This project must be vetted by those who have no skin in the game, by those not wanting to win or steal an election..

There are power generating turbines being added to BC`s Mica dam...For a cost of $500 million dollars Mica Dam will produce extra power, the new power generated, on top of power Mica already produces......For $500 million dollars a couple of new added turbines will produce half the power of Site C Dam..Without flooding land, flooding farm land...Merely adding turbines to an existing dam will create half the power of Sire C dam...for a cost of $500 million dollars...

1/20th the cost of Site C dam ....Mica will produce half the power Site C would at 1/20th the cost..

Where is the media outrage?

Someone needs to haul the BC Liberals off to jail..Demand a Site C plebiscite, or referendum...

The biggest expenditure ever proposed in British Columbia with not one shred of evidence that this power is required..

It would be criminal to allow that big of an expenditure without the case being made that the power is needed..

If the NDP can`t persuade the powers at be, the courts, the new media, the internet media..

We need all hands on deck to stop this $15 billion dollar theft of public money...

We need to explore other options for power..Like this option...

Since we have, according to Christy Clark and Rich Coleman, "British Columbia has some of the largest known natural gas reserves in the world, more than enough for domestic use only, hundreds of years of supply", more than we can ever use domestically.....And as of right now, and probably forever, we don`t and won`t have an LNG export industry..

What British Columbia has is tonnes of natural gas and nowhere to sell it, how about we sell it to ourselves..?

British Columbia could create a market for domestic natural gas, no need to liquify if...And at the same time can create 800 to 1200 mega watts of power, or more,  as much power as Site C dam would produce..

We would not have to flood 30,000 acres of fertile northern farmland...Thus that land up north would not be flooded, the land would continue to grow food and be a carbon sinc, , meaning the non-flooded land would absorb greenhouse gases...Absorb enough greenhouse gas to offset the below proposal..

A proposal that would give B.C. options, options to turn up or down the electrical output depending on the needs, this electrical plant would only take up in total space..24 hectares of space/land required...

And here`s the most attractive part of the whole deal...For a cost of about $1.4 billion dollars we could produce as much power as Site C..

 We could save over $10 billion dollars before interest charges...BC Hydro`s ratepayers would not see their bills go through the roof...

We could build the world`s cleanest, newest, most modern most efficient natural gas electrical generating plant in the world...At the same time greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas plant would be offset by not flooding 30,000 acres of farmland..no homeowners to piss off, to buy out..no First Nations to cut deals with, plus it gives our natural gas drillers a new market for some of their gas, that means some royalties for the province..And create B.C. jobs for B.C. workers.

And we will save not a few $hundred million dollars but over $10 billion dollars ...

And if someday in the future LNG exports produce bigtime revenues for the province we can shut down this plant, maybe nuclear fusion will come online, newer more efficient appliances, possibly domestic power generation that could feed into the grid, like solar, tidal, geo-thermal and who knows what other technological miracles are coming down the pike..

Pipe dreams, no....A win win win...BC Taxpayers win...Saving food growing farmland wins...A new market for our gas drillers, a win for them, a win for BC`s credit rating and a break-even win for the environment, what greenhouse gas emissions are expelled will be offset by not flooding 30,000 acres of farm land, maintaining the land as a carbon sinc.

BC Hydro won`t have to carry a $20 billion dollar debt, ratepayers won`t have to carry that debt on their bi-monthy electric bills..

British Columbia could save $billions and $billions of dollars by building a copy of this..

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 "Shepard Energy Centre is a new, natural gas-fired power plant being built near Shepard Industrial Park in south-east Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The project, estimated to cost C$1.3bn, is being hailed as one of the largest projects ever undertaken by the city of Calgary.

The facility will have a nominal plant rating of 800MW and will be the largest natural gas-fired electricity generation facility in Alberta when commissioned in 2015.

It will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of more than half of Calgary's existing power demands.

The facility will use an advanced emissions technology and will generate less than half the CO2 per megawatt than a conventional coal-fired plant. The plant will be owned and operated by Enmax Shepard, a subsidiary of Enmax Energy."

Enmax Energy's Calgary plant features

Important features of the plant include natural gas compression, auxiliary boilers and a wet surface condenser and cooling tower. Heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) will be partially enclosed, while the steam turbine generator (STG) and gas turbine generators (GTGs) will be fully enclosed. The project also has provisions for future carbon dioxide capture.

 http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shepard-energy-centre/

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We have time, Site C dam construction is not slated to start until the summer of 2015..

Plus there are many lawsuits pending..

I personally asked John Horgan and the NDP party to pay for and commission a non-partisan study exploring the options I highlighted above, if the BC Liberals can prove we need much more power in the future and Site C is the only viable option, so be it, if the BC Liberals have complete faith and confidence they shouldn`t fear a non-partisan committee to review in depth Site C, the costs, the ramifications and other options.

 We may not even need the natural gas power plant, but if we need power, this is the route to go..

However, the time has come for the opposition NDP to step up to the plate, the BC Liberal`s clean energy act is gone, out the window, each proposed large LNG plant would add near 9 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions to our provincial airshed each year...This natural gas electrical plant would add about 1/10th of that total...BC`s clean energy act is null n void with an LNG industry..

Christy Clark and the BC Liberals have been talking the talk, Christy Clark was blathering in public how "BC`s LNG would clean China`s airshed and make the world`s air cleaner".. 

If that is true, if it is good enough for China than a natural gas electrical plant must be good enough for British Columbia too.

We as a province could even buy carbon offsets, $100 million dollars worth of carbon offsets per year and we would still be ahead of the Site C cost by $billions and $billions of dollars..We could buy offsets of that amount for 30 years and only spend $3 billion dollars... Add in the cost of a natural gas electrical plant of $1.3 billion to even as high as $2 billion dollars, add both amounts together ....$5 billion dollars...And we wouldn`t have to buy carbon offsets if we didn`t need to....As stated above...We would not be flooding 30,000 acres of carbon absorbing farmland...

We can`t wait until the spring session of the legislature starts to begin this battle..

 Building a natural gas electrical plant(if we need the power) is a win win... 

BC jobs, BC workers..A electrical generating plant using B.C. natural gas, drilled by B.C. natural gas well drillers, piped through B.C. pipeline, power generated flowing to B.C. homes at a fraction of the cost of a Site C dam...Thus saving the province, saving B.C. Hydro $billions of dollars...Saving ratepayers even $billions more, money that will flow into our economy rather than to New York Bond Buying hedge funds..

A win win win...

We need the media to get onside with this plan...We need the BC NDP making wave after wave...Refusing to sit in our legislature until all these $billion dollar plus saving options are explored thoroughly by non-partisan entities with no skin in the game..

We need The Straight Goods....We need leadership, we need a robust opposition...

Who knows what energy efficiencies lie ahead in the future..A $1.3 to $2 billion dollar natural gas electrical generating plant can easily be decommissioned...A $15 billion dollar dam, not so much..

Food security....Saving ever declining farmland stocks...Not having to flood 30,000 acres...Not having to buy out home-owners, northern businesses, not having to fight First Nations in the Peace region..

The non-flooded land will grow food and absorb carbon...B.C. workers to build a natural gas power plant, giving our drillers another market for our excess gas..

Everybody wins, taxpayers, ratepayers, northern homesteaders, First Nations, the environment, our credit rating..

Everybody wins....

If an opposition can`t make the case, can`t stop it, slow down Site C....Can`t present and produce viable options..

Can`t do a better job than a single blogger with no money, no staff, just a computer and a few connected brain cells..

Until then..

No political opposition party gets a red cent from me.

P.S....Happy New Year.....Well, we can at least hope for a happy new year.!

The Straight Goods

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