Corruption Investigation of Campbell Endorsed Policy
12/29/09
Corruption Investigation of Campbell Endorsed Policy
Doug McArthur of SFU's Policy Centre explains how the BC Liberals Premier has endorsed failed Danish Policy.
"Danish Investigate Policy Copied by Campbell" (BC Liberals)
The Vancouver Sun profiled Premier Gordon Campbell on Friday in Denmark endorsing not the Copenhagen Accord, but the Danish policy of subsidizing private wind power at the expense of taxpayers. He claimed that Denmark sets an example for us if we want to develop clean energy. And indeed it appears that his government has been in many ways following the Danish example. Unfortunately, neither he nor his advisers appears to have taken the time to discover how wrong the Danish approach has turned out to be and how costly it will be to Danish taxpayers.../snip
snip/...Meanwhile, it is perhaps worth noting that on the very week that Campbell profiled the Danish program, investigators in Denmark commenced a corruption investigation into the arrangement there. Perhaps a closer look at what is happening here in BC is warranted after all. Especially since the BC program is almost a total replica of that of Denmark.
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Coastal wind power is in fact extremely well matched to BC's seasonal electricity and natural gas demand. And dealing with daily fluctuations is not such a big deal in an area with lots of hydroelectric storage. Denmark does not have much hydroelectric storage, so of course they pay other countries for storage services.
It is time to do renewable power right, and stop the blanket attacks on renewable energy technologies. Renewable does not have to mean private.
Conservation is the greenest form of energy, and often the least expensive. And creating compact, complete communities with good transit is one of the most important forms of energy conservation.
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12/30/09 @ 10:19 Rather like Liberals saying that national unity was so important the the corruption of the Sponsorship Scandal didn't really matter, we have people saying that "green" energy is so vital we need to put aside questions about pricing and about who benefits financially and by how much.
And what do these "green" energy advocates really demand from provincial public policy? They SAY that as long as there's a good enviromental screening of projects, everything is fine, they just need the appropriate prices from Hydro and a carbon tax to make fossil fuel alternatives more expensive.
What they MEAN is that they want a very, very lax environmental screening process so that as many run-of-river projects as possible can proceed, thereby maximizing returns to shareholders. They want very high prices guranteed for long periods. The carbon tax is a purely symbolic fig leaf which adds nothing to the basic economics of what's at play.
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