Christy Clark`s Family of Unicorns/ Diary of a Meter Maid

Families first, Christy Clark wants you to believe that she cares about your family, well what about the family of the three hundred BC Hydro employees being laid off this week, 750 families in total will see pink slips from BC hydro..


This friends is nothing but a political game of public grandstanding.......I wan`t you to remember this fact all the way through this article..


"private power projects produce 16 per cent of domestic power, but account for 49 per cent of energy costs."




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Mark down August 12, 2011 as the day BC Hydro all but concluded its suicide mission, with the Campbell/Clark government and the Review Panel playing the role of Dr. Jack Kervorkian.

When you sort through the announcement by Rich Coleman and the verbose report itself, you learn that BC Hydro will cut its future costs by 50%, which in practical terms means this: Hydro will be unable to upgrade its facilities and build generators on flood control dams which means they will buy more and more power from more and more private power producers – which is surplus to their needs – buggering up more and more rivers and streams, thus fulfilling the Campbell/Clark government’s ambition to privatize power in BC.

BC Hydro, in taking all this unneeded power from Independent Power Producers (IPPs), must either export it or use it instead of its own vastly cheaper power. This means that BC Hydro will use power at at least double what it can make it for or export it at half to a quarter what they were forced to pay for it. Last year Hydro wasted $600 million buying IPP power it didn’t need – that money was our money, folks.
This comment on the report by former BC Hydro board chair and SFU political scientist Marjorie Griffin-Cohen. She said that the review – which also called for the utility to cut its proposed 50% rate hikes by half – distracts from the utility's real problem: that  the real burden of cost is the government's policy on private power. "Basically, what they have required to happen in BC is for new power generation to be in the private sector, BC Hydro to buy that and their hope was that this could spur exports of electricity to the United States," she said.

"It was a very serious miscalculation of what was going on. So what we have now is a lot of private power that is extremely costly."

Griffin-Cohen said private power projects produce 16 per cent of domestic power, but account for 49 per cent of energy costs. (emphasis added)

The much esteemed SFU professor and energy economist Marvin Shaffer had this to say:
"The real story in the review panel report, although gingerly and cautiously stated, is that it is government itself which bears major responsibility for driving up BC Hydro costs and rates. It was the government that directed BC Hydro to acquire all new sources of energy from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) 


Hydro Report: Death Knell for BC's Public Power?
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BC Hydro statistics

Type	Crown Corporation
Industry	Electricity
Founded	1961
Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Area served	British Columbia
Key people	Dave Cobb, President & CEO
Products	Electricity generation, transmission and distribution
Revenue	C$3.822 billion (2010)[citation needed]
Net income	C$447 million (2010)[citation needed]
Total assets	C$16.5 billion (2010)[citation needed]
Owner(s)	Government of British Columbia
Employees	6163 (2010)[citation needed]
Website  The BC Hydro and Power Authority is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia generally known simply as BC Hydro. It is the main electric distributor, serving 1.8 million customers

__________________________________________________ BC Hydro has 1.8 million customers give or take a few, giving 750 lower-end employees the boot will save ratepayers next to nothing, if everyone of those employees cost $70,000.00 per year after benefits, 300 hundred BC Hydro employees gone this week, 150 already given the boot, let`s round it off to 500 employees whacked from BC Hydro this year.....Now let`s do the simple math, BC Hydro by laying off these 500 REAL persons will save a whopping $35 million dollars per year on wages..... 35 million dollars divided by 1.8 million BC Hydro customers =.....$19.44 dollars per customer per year....And these customers are billed every 2 months, that means your average BC Hydro customer receives 6 hydro bills per year.... For if BC Hydro returned every dime of savings on human resources and reduced your home hydro bill dollar for dollar the savings every 2 months on your bill would be a whopping....$3.24 cents every 2 months or....$1.62 per month, this political exercise is propaganda at its finest, pure bullshit.....Tomorrow on the cutting edge of the ledge Vaughn Palmer and Balderdash and blue pill Billy will talk about this bloated crown corporation but not one of them will do any grade 3 math and give you the Straight Goods...... BC Hydro is paying 49% of all their revenue to private IPPs power projects for 16% of the power, if BC Hydro carries on with Gordon Campbell`s and Christy Clark`s privatization schemes and fraudulent clean energy act BC Hydro will be buying another 16% from these IPPs and consume 100% of BC Hydro`s revenues, those are the facts, that is why BC Hydro rates are skyrocketing... The smart meters are being brought in for the sole purpose of real time billing, meaning you will pay a 3 tier rate for power use between 5PM and 10PM each night, .....This whacking of employees at BC Hydro is a farce, it will not reduce rates, well, let me re-phrase that, the firing of 700 employees at BC Hydro will save the BC Hydro ratepayer a maximum of..... A maximum of....$1.62 per month. There are roughly 300 meter readers at BC Hydro, those meter readers cost BC Hydro about $18 million dollars per year, the not-so smart meters are costing $1.2 billion dollars to buy and install FIRST GENERATION smart meters.......We could employ those meter readers for 60 years and still not cost as much as these First Generation Smart meters....Perhaps you wonder why I use the term First Generation, well, these smart meters are supposed to, and are theoretically designed to talk to a smart grid.....But we don`t have a smart grid, these smart meters are like having the very first Atari pong game, these phony smart meters will be replaced within a decade, a $billion.2 wasted on First Generation crap......And Rich Coleman along with his fellow snake oil salesmen have the unmitigated gall to state on the record that these smart/dumb meters will help people conserve power.... In-fact, when these devices were first proposed by Gordon Campbell the BC Liberals stated on the record that "British Columbians, children, teenagers could look at the smart meters inside their home and see their power consumption!" snip But then questions were asked and a short while later it was revealed that these First Generation Smart Meters would not be put inside the home but outside the home where the old existing meter is.....and.. And it gets better, for a short time later it was revealed that not only are these smart meters not going in the home but the only way to access your home`s smart meter and check on, compare, or see your power consumption you must..... You must turn on your computer, fire up your tower, turn on your monitor and log onto your smart meter, are you kidding me!!!!....Conservation, crank up the electronics and start burning electricity to check in on your First Generation Smart meter and where is the smart grid?....The Chicken and the egg routine, shouldn`t we have a smart grid first?????...Of course we should, but then David Emerson wouldn`t be able to sell BC Hydro three newer versions of the Smart meter, and at $1 billion dollars plus per round.... A corrupt BC Liberal Government hell-bent on carrying forward Gordon Campbell`s policies, a caretaker Government with Christy Clark`s face plastered everywhere, a phony, a liar, a conwoman.. BC Hydro rates are skyrocketing for 2 reasons, IPP private power buying contracts and smart meters, everything else coming out of Christy Clark`s mouth or Rich Coleman`s mouth is a lie.. Meter readers, they drive through my community, they are eyes and ears, they report problems, they are family, British Columbians, automatic clerkless checkout aisles, selfserve gas, ATMs, technocracy, bigger mining trucks, bigger corporate profits, crewless super tankers, automation, robotics, heck, we don`t even have coal miners, those too are Asian imports.... What the hell is a meter reader?.....Have they too gone the way of the unicorn!

"long time ago, when the Earth was green, There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen. And they ran about and played while the Earth was being born, And the loveliest of all was the unicorn. There was green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, The loveliest of all was the unicorn. The Lord seen some sinning and it caused Him pain. And He said, 'Stand back, I'm going to make it rain!' He said, 'Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do, Go and build me a floating zoo,' 'and take some'....... 'Green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born. Don't you forget My unicorns.' Old Noah was there to answer the call, He finished up the ark just as the rain started to fall. Then he marched in the animals two by two, And he called out as they came through, 'Hey Lord,' 'I've got green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn, I just can't find no unicorns!' And Noah looked out through the driving rain, Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games. Kicking and splashing while the rain was pourin', Oh, them silly unicorns! There was green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Noah cried, 'Close the door because it's starting to storm, And we just can't wait for those unicorns!' The ark started moving, it drifted with the tide, The unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried. And the waters came down and sort of floated them away, That's why you never see unicorns(Meter readers) to this very day. You'll see some green alligators and long-necked geese, Lots of humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, You're never gonna see a meter reader! Families First eh Christy Clark?.....Perhaps you could expand on that! The Straight Goods Cheers Eyes Wide Open