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Let's Celebrate Renewable Energy: BC's Hydro Electric Dams. Who built them? And who benefits from them?
September 15, 2016 - 11:40am
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It's about water: 92% of BC Hydro's power generation is hydroelectric
https://www.bchydro.com/energy-in-bc/our_system/generation/our_facilitie...
So who built these wonderful renewable energy projects, eh?
And who benefits from them?
Maybe, just maybe, most residents of BC.
BC's hydro electric dams sound like a win-win situation
Maybe they are but BC Hydro is not a non-partisan source of information. There is also the small detail about whose land they want to use.
This is outrageous that in a supposedly progressive site, people can get away with supporting the total violation of Peoples lands and Territories, tearing up Indigenous People´s rights, supposedly backed by the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitution of Canada and the UN Conventions....
why do the moderators, supposedly based on some principles, permit this?
How many pro-BC Liberal projects are you going to open?
BC's Hydro dams have provided necesary power for decades. The power from Site C however is not required so the tradeoffs from flooding farmland do not make sense, especially when the same amount of investment can build many smaller projects around the province and employ far more workers closer to their families.
When the original dams were built the Charter had not been enacted into law and First Nations treaty rights were not on the radar. The oppostion from the First Nations whose treaty land this dam is being built on should be respected.
Thanks for this...but remember the Indigenous peoples on the Peace land has been flooded by past projects...they have not forgotten!
I prefer to celebrate the folks who had the vision to build these renewable resource hydro electric dams, and equally to celebrate the folks that built them. Have you ever visited one of the dams and taken a tour? I recommend it as it is an eye-opening fascinating experience.
For those though who don't want to celebrate and use the power from these green dams, purchase some matches and candles, call bc hydro,and cancel your service.
And of course it is a given that first nations peoples claims need to be considered.
Considered and ignored is that what yopu f'ing mean?
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For those though who don't want to celebrate and use the power from these green dams, purchase some matches and candles, call bc hydro,and cancel your service. ....
( yes I don`t have their f...g service, when they tried to blackmail me with their smart meters..(my partner at our orchards is super sensitive to EMF....)
But my essential point here is that the green energy and green capitalist people promoting their false solutions miss the point...very dangerous!
Green energy must be holistic!
I live in a village, with one creek running 20 meters from me that could without any damn damn, power the entire territory...but do you think the globalists working through their crown agencies would permit this? Of course not...no profit for them...no financial bonanzas on the stock markets, derivatives and futures for them!
Green energy means not just no fossils, it means no corporations, no centralizations, no fiat currency market systems...it means community control, regional autonomy, bioregional autonomy, community finance and credit systems, self reliance, local green industrialization, skills and jobs for the youth!
Once the greens of the early 90`s understood this...they blew it! Now we live in an intellectual political wasteland!
This dam, if it is built, is going to be a disaster waiting to happen.
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/editorial-exclusive-shale-is-no...