Bob Elton, former CEO of BC Hydro
Recently, the British Columbia Utilities Commission announced that one of BC Hydro’s prime sources of electricity can no longer operate.
Burrard Thermal is located near Port Moody, BC on the Burrard Inlet and has been providing power to the Vancouver area for the last 50 years using natural gas. Some organizations say that this operation produces “dirty electricity” and is responsible for a large amount of greenhouse gases.
Evidently, this is the latest in a series of blows for BC Hydro. As a result of this decision, other private utilities will be able to submit their own “clean energy” projects to make up the difference in the 7,000 gigawatt hours that Burrard Thermal produces per year.
In the meantime, BC Hydro has entered into 20 and 30 year Energy Purchase Agreements to buy energy from such little known companies as the Brilliant Expansion Power Corporation, Mercer International and ROR Power, to name a few.
Just after this announcement from the BCUC, Bob Elton was forced to resign as the head of BC Hydro, a crown corporation.
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