BC Hydro planned to hide the fact that long-term demand for electricity in British Columbia is projected to decline, even as the Crown corporation works to greatly increase the amount of power it produces, NDP critic Adrian Dix charged in a recent letter to the minister responsible.
“Our energy future should be built on sensible planning and not on Liberal wishful thinking,” Dix wrote in the Feb. 1 letter to Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett.
He pointed out that BC Hydro told the B.C. Utilities Commission at the Jan. 19 Rate Design Application Procedural Conference that it would only provide a 10-year forecast for energy supply and demand, instead of the previous practice of projecting 20 years ahead.
Andrew MacLeod – TheTyee.ca –Â Feb 11 2016.
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