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Friday December 13, 2024
 
"More juice!"

This week, B.C. premier David Eby joined Energy Minister Adrian Dix to announce that nine new wind power projects, co-owned by First Nations, have been approved. These power producers will receive 30-year production contracts with BC Hydro.

Dix said the projects will create the same amount of power as the publicly funded $16-billion Site C dam in northeast B.C., which flooded the Peace River Valley this fall after more than nine years of construction.

But while announcing this huge increase in renewable energy, Dix also said they would not be imposing environmental assessment requirements on the new projects in the hopes they can start delivering clean power to the grid ASAP.

Wait, what?

And it’s not just these wind projects breezing through permitting. Eby implied his government will be overhauling regulatory processes for other industries, too.

What could be lost in expediting these and other proposed infrastructure projects? Eby mentions mining as another industry B.C. might expedite permits for. What about pipelines?

And will everyday people benefit from this new power, or will the province do what it’s doing with Site C and use renewable wind energy as a carrot to draw in new “major industrial customers”? (also, provinces have customers??)

Lots of questions have been left unanswered to what we wish was simply a good news story.

Read more about the implications of B.C.’s new wind power projects.
 
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