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Posts tagged LNG
BC Hydro May Need New Energy Sooner Than Anticipated

To achieve Government’s environmental goals –  BC Hydro must ensure that the province has sufficient electricity generation to meet future demand. Unfortunately, and despite outward confidence on the part of the utility, it is increasingly unlikely that BC Hydro will have the electricity required to support both baseline provincial demand and the future demand growth driven by electrification.

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CleanBC: Good Start. Now the Hard Work.

The government of British Columbia is strongly focused on making progress towards it’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. At the same time, however, it needs to protect industry and the economy while also managing to advance First Nations interests. Any policy that fails to lay out how it can work towards all of these goals will be rendered inadequate. While the CleanBC Report is a step in the right direction, it falls short in a number of critical ways, leaving key questions left to be answered…

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