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rhtunstall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@thegreenpagesBC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thegreenpagesBC</span></a></span> </p><p>Did <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a> just flood the <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/PeaceValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceValley</span></a> to use <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> Dam power for LNG and an Bell/Grok AI data cluster? </p><p>Is this the start of US corporations drinking our water for memes of Will Smith eating spaghetti?</p><p>This is disturbing behaviour from our province. <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> have clearly forgotten that they are on a razor’s edge and can be voted out easily. </p><p>Eby continues to embrace <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a> extraction in the wake of <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/TMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TMX</span></a>, <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a>, <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/FairyCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairyCreek</span></a> and now Elon’s <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> Data Centers will be drinking our water? </p><p>This <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> is clearly no better than destructive <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a>, if they continue down this path they’ve lost my vote.</p><p>Trump is not an excuse to openly rape our Province for profit, <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Eby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eby</span></a> is completely out of line and no different than <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Horgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horgan</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Greengordon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thenarwhal</span></a></span> </p><p>Site C was always intended as a massive subsidy to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a>. Taxpayers pay to build it, cut-rate ‘clean’ electricity to create more fossil fuels. The <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> are vile people. I mean, they’re nice to your face, but they’re wrecking the planet and democracy.</p><p>"One LNG project alone is requesting more than half the amount of electricity B.C.’s Site C dam will produce”</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a></p>
Stephen Elliott~Buckley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://spore.social/@Greengordon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Greengordon</span></a></span> Putin didn't take all of Ukraine, just a tasty easy morsel. Each time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigHands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigHands</span></a> takes BC, he gets all Canada's Pacific ports, 12 Columbia dams and millions of trees, oil, gas, coal, and the switch to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p>
Lindsay Brown<p>This major leak is at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam, even if video is unlabelled. It shows leaks in a penstock (intake pipe) that brings water down from the reservoir &amp; into the concrete powerhouse to feed a turbine. The concrete at bottom left is the "buttress" or large concrete structure that houses the turbines and powerhouse.</p><p>Recall: the buttress was sliding 1mm per day back in 2021 &amp; had to be shored up $$$$. If this leak is caused by the buttress still settling, that extra $8 bn didn't work.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thenarwhal</span></a></span> <br>The purpose of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> was always to power the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a> industry.</p>
LM Little<p>So offensive! After destroying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> homelands, sacred sites, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> stewarded for millennia, and a land that could have fed a million people, the proposal is to give this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megadam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megadam</span></a> an Indigenous name. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FFS</span></a>!!! <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-gets-indigenous-name/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-gets-</span><span class="invisible">indigenous-name/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/settlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>settlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>For a Canadian/BC perspective. 25GW capacity is approximately 25 times the capacity of the <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam.</p><p>Yes, I know solar is not 'base load’... but this is 25 TIMES larger, for near $0 cost to government and reduces costs over time for electricity for consumers.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/113505258739632135" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@primonatura/1135</span><span class="invisible">05258739632135</span></a></p>
rhtunstall<p>Where is our ‘effin <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Novavax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Novavax</span></a> access <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a>? Adrian Dix promised my <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/immunocompromised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunocompromised</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/bced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bced</span></a> wife in the lead up to the election we would have access to Novavax. Why does this covid minimizing bcndp now fail to deliver on novavax and continue to stay silent on masking, long covid and covid awareness?</p><p>Was this just another of BCNDP false promises to garner votes, immediately cast aside by Bonnie Henry once you won?</p><p>What a completely pitiful government this BCNDP has been on Covid. Truly uninspiring, complacent to sickness and full of Bonnie Henry’s gaslighting.</p><p>Perhaps Eby and the rest of his bcndp are truly just full of bs, we already know Henry and Dix are. </p><p>Sure looks like Eby’s bcndp government has embraced gross negligence as their sole covid response. Nothing but a bunch of slimy Great Barrington crooks in suits. Sickening, pun intended.</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/falsepromises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsepromises</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/flipflops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flipflops</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/covid19bc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19bc</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/sitec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sitec</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/tmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tmx</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <br><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCNDPsucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDPsucks</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCHealthsucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCHealthsucks</span></a><br><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BCCDCsucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCCDCsucks</span></a><br><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/GovernmentTrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentTrash</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corrupt</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Useless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Useless</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/grossnegligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grossnegligence</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/bonniehenry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bonniehenry</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/gbd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gbd</span></a></p>
Auscandoc<p>Operations update: First generating unit comes into service on Site C | Site C <a href="https://www.sitecproject.com/first-generating-unit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sitecproject.com/first-generat</span><span class="invisible">ing-unit</span></a> “The first of six generating units on the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> project has come into operation, following the required testing and commissioning process.</p><p>The remaining generating units will come into operation one-by-one. Each generating unit can provide more than 180 megawatts of power to <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/BCHydro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCHydro</span></a> customers. The Site C project remains on track to have all six generating units in service by fall 2025.”</p>
LM Little<p>Of course the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RCMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RCMP</span></a>'s C-IRG were involved in harassing and arresting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> protectors and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/landDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landDefenders</span></a> and clearing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> out of the way so this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megadam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megadam</span></a> could be built. The unnecessary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> is pure destruction and violence. <a href="https://pbicanada.org/2024/08/27/the-rcmp-c-irg-and-the-site-c-dam-flooding-indigenous-heritage-sites-and-burial-grounds-in-british-columbia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pbicanada.org/2024/08/27/the-r</span><span class="invisible">cmp-c-irg-and-the-site-c-dam-flooding-indigenous-heritage-sites-and-burial-grounds-in-british-columbia/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DismantleCIRG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DismantleCIRG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p>
LM Little<p>Another unnecessary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> killing project trampling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> brought to northern people by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NDP</span></a>. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hydro-reservoir-site-c-1.7304535" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/bc-hydro-reservoir-site-c-1.7304535</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorporateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateCapture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megadam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megadam</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>The reservoir of one of, if not THE Last Great Hydroelectric Dams built in North America, <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> in Northern BC, is being filled. Generation is expected in December. Full power next fall.</p><p>Incredible, legitimate, controversy getting this project going, and seeing it through to now.</p><p>I'm not sure we'll know for years or decades just how bad or good a decision this will have been but one thing is for sure, the landscape is forever changed.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Electriicty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Electriicty</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCHydro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCHydro</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hydro-reservoir-site-c-1.7304535" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/bc-hydro-reservoir-site-c-1.7304535</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>Zoe Grams: Of the 76 words in Trans Mountain Corp.’s most recent statement that its oilsands to tidewater pipeline expansion faces further delays, a quarter of them emit a decidedly “don’t call us, we’ll call you” sentiment.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransMountain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/02/05/Trans-Mountain-Too-Busy-Held-Accountable/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/02/05/</span><span class="invisible">Trans-Mountain-Too-Busy-Held-Accountable/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
Lindsay Brown<p>For non BCers, BC Hydro runs annoying ads hosted by "Dave" with conservation tips to keep your bill down so you don't get mad at Hydro when it applies to BCUC for huge rate hikes due to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a>. It's akin to when our Premier Horgan blamed youth for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/covid19bc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19bc</span></a> instead of looking to his own policies.."</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>Engineer: "Why do we never consider that BC Hydro could put solar panels on your roof? They'd belong to BC Hydro &amp; you wouldn't have to shell out. You only pay for their service. It's like the phone or cable co. technically owning your modem. This is FAR cheaper than the $20 billion <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam for both BC Hydro &amp; us.."</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>You probably have questions. I did. Let's go through all the Qs I instantly had for the engineer. </p><p>Q: Won't some people then be paying more? Esp. if they're conserving electricity &amp; keeping their bills low?</p><p>A: Maybe, but not as much as if our current rates doubled due to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a>, which is possible. You could make payments progressive, too..</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>The ability to export electricity depends on demand (which fluctuates by time of year, day etc). But just to give you an idea of how unprofitable exports are from, for example, BC's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam:</p><p>It costs us over $125/MWhr to produce electricity with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a>. We can sell it - when we can even find a market for it - at about $25MWhr! Huge losses, and by the way the cost of that is largely borne by us, the ratepayers.</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>Even when they're not building building pointless corporate welfare projects like the (corrupt) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam, power utilities have big overhead costs. They must maintain dams, plants, wires, grid. With so much cheap renewable energy coming online, market price for electricity is low, &amp; contrary to popular opinion we make little/zero from electricity exports now... We can't just "sell it to our neighbours to pay for it!"</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>First, what's a "utility death spiral"?</p><p>Say an energy utility (eg BC Hydro) pointlessly spends too much on new generation (eg <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam) on top of the cost of maintaining all its wires and poles. It raises electricity rates to cover costs. As rates rise, consumers reduce their usage (and bills) +/or go off-grid. The utility's revenues fall. It raises rates to compensate, people use even less electricity... This market phenomenon is called elasticity and it will spark a death spiral.</p>
Lindsay Brown<p>It's ostensibly a different problem, but the current electricity panic is reminiscent of the horse manure crisis for those of us opposing BC's unnecessary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiteC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiteC</span></a> dam.</p><p>One of the most troubling &amp; persistent public misperceptions we face is the false idea of electricity scarcity: </p><p>"WE ARE GOING TO NEED A SHEDLOAD OF ELECTRICITY TO DECARBONIZE OURSELVES!! EVs ARE COMING! OH NO! BUILD MORE DAMS! MAYBE A REACTOR!"</p>
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