BC Liberals forcing BC Hydro into Long Term Acquistions of IPP appears to be the MO for the sale of the Liquor Distribution Branch!

The BBC especially likes this one:  The Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. ( Kerr Wood) Run-of-River Resource Assessment for B.C. ( F5) 

121 pages long, but the number crunching of just how much BC Hydro customers will be paying for Run-of-the-River projects starts on Page 117!

And if you're worried about what Rich Coleman is doing about the price of your next drink, by his selling off the Liquor Distribution rights to a third party, look no further than APPENDIX M that says this:

 20.1 Privilege: BC Hydro may award an EPA to the Proponent(s) that in BC Hydro’s sole and unfettered opinion, offers the resource(s) that best serves the interests of BC Hydro and its ratepayers. The Proposal(s) having the lowest price(s) or lowest cost to BC Hydro will not necessarily be successful. BC Hydro may award no EPAs, or may terminate the procurement process at any time. BC Hydro is not obliged to provide to Proponents reasons for the award of EPAs or the rejection of any Proposal, or for termination of the RFP procurement process.

Modified to fit the sale of BC Liquor Distribution

20.1 Privilege: BC Liquor may award an EPA to the Proponent(s) that in BC Liquor’s sole and unfettered opinion, offers the resource(s) that best serves the interests of BC Liquor and its buyers. The Proposal(s) having the lowest price(s) or lowest cost to BC Liquor will not necessarily be successful. BC Liquor may award no EPAs, or may terminate the procurement process at any time. BC Liquor is not obliged to provide to Proponents reasons for the award of EPAs or the rejection of any Proposal, or for termination of the RFP procurement process.

Don't miss out on Powertech in APPENDIX E   CLEAN COAL POWER GENERATION BY CO2 SEQUESTRATION

BC Government Publications
Index for:
B.C. Hydro Long Term Acquisition Plan (... LTAP)

2009	ERRATA – February 27, 2009
2008
2008 Long Term Acquisition Plan Application - Revisions of August 19, 2008    PDF 2.34 MB
Appendix A	Draft of the Requested Final Order - Revision of August 19, 2008
Appendix B	B.C. Government policy and regulatory documents: The 2007 Energy Plan (B1) SD 10 (B2) Clean or Renewable Electricity Guidelines (B3) Amended HSD#1 and HSD#2 (B4)
Appendix C	Table summarizing the 29 BCUC Directives arising out of the 2006 IEP/LTAP Decision along with the status of each relevant Directive and a reference to the section where the Directive is addressed in the 2008 LTAP
Appendix D	2007 Load Forecast
Appendix E	Direct Testimony of Dr. Ren Orans of Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3) concerning the elasticity assumptions in the 2008 LTAP
Appendix F	ROU-related documents: Resource Options Database (RODAT) sheets (F1) The Powertech Labs Inc. (Powertech) Technology Summary Clean Coal Power Generation by C0 2 Sequestration: (F2) BC Hydro's wind integration cost assessment (F3) The BC Hydro Engineering report concerning Jordan River pumped storage ( F4a) Powertech evaluation of the Jorvic Sewage Reclaim Pipeline at BC Hydro's Jordan River Hydroelectric Project ( F4b) The Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. ( Kerr Wood) Run-of-River Resource Assessment for B.C. ( F5) The Garrad Hassan Canada Inc. ( GH) Assessment of the Energy Potential and Estimated Costs in B.C of Wind Energy ( F6) The AMEC Americas Limited ( AMEC) Gas-Fired Combustion Turbine Power Plant Costs and Performance Update report ( F7) Potential Large Hydro Project report ( F8) Integrated System ( transmission) Planning Assumptions ( F9) Calculation of Capacity Planning Reserves as filed in the 2007 Alcan EPA proceeding ( F10) – Revision of July 4, 2008 Estimated Unit Energy Cost ( UEC) Cost Adjustment Values ( F11) Effective Load Carrying Capability ( ELCC) Firm Energy Load Carrying Capability ( FELCC) of Intermittent Resources report ( F12) Comparison of the 2008 ROU to the 2006 Call ( F13) The Risk Framework Explanation and Applications ( F14) Resource Planning Models ( F15) Portfolios and Analysis ( F16) DSM Resource Options ( F17)
Appendix G	Three Natsource GHG price forecast-related reports, as follows: The 2007 GHG Offset Forecast Report ( G1) An addendum to G1 to address the B.C. carbon tax ( G2) Natsource's memorandum estimating the probability of the main GHG scenarios ( G3)
Appendix H	Global Energy's Renewable Energy Credit Market Analysis of the Potential Renewable Energy Sale in WECC report
Appendix I	Global Energy's Natural Gas Price Forecast for BC Hydro report
Appendix J	Four Burrard-related reports, as follows: AMEC's Condition Assessment and Alternative Configuration Study-Burrard Generating Station:           Current Configuration ( J1)           Alternative Configuration( J2) RWDI Air Inc.'s ( RWDI):            Burrard Consent to Operate Risk Analysis ( J3)            Permitting Requirements for Rebuilding Burrard Thermal Generating Station ( J4)
Appendix K	BC Hydro's DSM Plan – Revision of July 4, 2008
Appendix L	Two Site C-related reports: Summary: Stage 1 Review of Project Feasibility report ( L1) The Stage 2: Project Definition and Consultation plan ( L2) Site C Unit Energy Cost and Recent Orders in Council ( L3) – Revision of July 4, 2008
Appendix M	Copy of the Clean Power Call Request for Proposals ( RFP)
Appendix N	The Fort Nelson Resource Plan-Related and Long Term Acquisition Plan ( N1) – Revision of July 4, 2008 The Fort Nelson Generating Station Upgrade Report ( N2)
Appendix O	BC Hydro's Base Plan and CRPs ( O1) – Revision of July 4, 2008
Appendix P	Assessment of Puget Sound Area/Northern Intertie Curtailment Risk report
Appendix Q	First Nations and stakeholder engagement report for the 2008 LTAP, the Clean Power Call, Mica Unit 5 and Mica Unit 6, Fort Nelson-related issues, and the draft Application workshop presentation and intervenor comments – Revision of July 4, 2008
Appendix R	Glossary and Abbreviations

Oil tankers, and if there is a spill, who will pay these guys "1403300 2403035 193432 1406628"?

Four sets of numbers, gleaned from the internet, after NOT looking for them in any particular way.  I started out this morning looking through several Directories on my hard drives of "items" that I have saved (BookMarked) for a rainy day.  Today it wasn't raining, but it sure looked like it might, so, I went and did some house keeping.

Google Search Criteria   1403300 2403035 193432 1406628   generates six Results.

Third and Fourth are the same, Third in English, Fourth in French, Fifth makes you stop, and wonder.

Just what is the BC Liberal Government doing, to protect our coastal waters from the north end of Vancouver Island and all points SOUTH, if Premier Christy Clark is not going to take a stand against Oil Tankers and Pipelines from Alberta?    Is she going to hop on her Government Jet plane, with floats, and hop from one island to another claiming AFTER the FACT, that she will be there for US?....... after disaster strikes like that which has been happening up in Burns Lake and Prince George Saw Mills?

It isn't just the pristine waters of Burrard Inlet that is at stake here, its Wild Salmon too which are not marked on any map that I've found today.

"Marine Finfish  Aqualculture (with LF)" .... slow loading but lots of detail and inside the PDF file its called differently, once the file is opened up on your monitor:

"Saltwater Aquaculture Facilities in British Columbia   December 2010 (with Crown Land Fish Number)" or there's this:

another source for the same sort of information but with a different  title altogether

0 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers - Ministry of Agriculture and Lands ...

 Shades of Boss Power settlement, Energy Minister Rich Coleman will take care of it, he knows the procedures on how to settle on the Court House steps.

Now compare this image with the one above, and then go to this Blog of Alexandra Morton's  who created the image/document below for more information.  

 Update:   April 29, 2012

CURRENT VALID MARINE FINFISH BRITISH COLUMBIA AQUACULTURE LICENCE HOLDERS

This spreadsheet has been sorted by Crown Landfile numbers



Laugh Out Loud


      the file is dedicated to the Aquaculture Management team of Fish Farmers who see themselves as "Ensuring Sustainable Fisheries"....... as their product is decimating the natural habitat!!!!    Did they get their spin doctoring degree from Master Spin Doctor Rich Coleman when he was busily planting the Province's Six Billionth Tree and then continued to watch our Province's forests being decimated by the Mountain Pine Beetle..... and then..... and then...... hasn't a word to say on two explosions in two Saw Mills?

Oh yeah, he passed the portfolio file onto Steve Thomson the New Minister of Forests.... and where is he, Thomson, on the two explosions in the Saw Mills?  Was he pre-empted by Christy for another one of her Photo-Operations.

Who invited Jaspal Atwal to the Legislature or more to the point which MLA would have stood up and introduced Mr. Atwal?

Of course we'll never know from the Legislative floor unless we work in reverse because of this:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The House met at 1:40 p.m.

[Mr. Speaker in the chair.]

Routine Business

Mr. Speaker: Hon. Members, considering the amount of guests that we have here today, if we allowed introduction of guests, we might be here for some time, and the Minister of Finance might not get to deliver his today. So on behalf of all the members, I want to welcome you here today. And all those special guests that are sitting on the floor: welcome.

Reverse means we can cross MLA Kash Heed off of the list because he was one of two BC Liberals who approached the Speaker.  We can cross the Speaker off the list because he acted....... but was too late?

The BC Liberals have already admitted that the seat was for one of their guests, substitutions are still guests, still have to be vetted, and he wasn't.  What would the criteria have been used to ban Mr. Atwal if he wasn't permitted to sit in the House, as a guest?  Would there have been an uproar, of discrimination, and duly reported by the Press?   Would Mr. Atwal have made a fuss of being ejected?   He didn't have to make a fuss though, did he, the fuss came to him afterwards.   No Comment.


The House met at 1:40pm and the Speaker immediately says "...the Minister of Finance might not get to deliver his today" if introductions are made.

Not including the Speaker, 49 MLAs, sometimes the same speakers, rose and spoke for less than two hours altogether.

The House adjourned at 3:19 p.m.

A minute under Two hours to conduct the business of the House, where normally the House sits long after 3:10pm, so what was the rush on this particular day?



Not enough time to introduce the guests!


Were there too many guests in the House?  Was the House in violation of the BC Fire Code?


Now if I had a little money set aside I'd hire myself a polling firm, or a Rack9,  to do a robocall to the MLA's and ask them who they were going to introduce on Budget 2012.  Just give us the names for the record, the Fire Marshall needs an accounting of how many people were in the House..... and where they sat.

Or a far worse scenario....legislative building's earthquake readiness   which I witnessed via the live telecast late last year, the ringing of many bells, the House was open, but closed, MLAs and staff were hiding beneath their desks, or giving interviews...about the Great Shake Out.



The question isn't who Invited Jaspal Atwal to the Legislature, the question is who was going to INTRODUCE Mr. Atwal, and then turn and ask the House to make him welcome?

Would the MLA have risen from the Government side of the house, front and centre, with the Minister of Finance to their right, the Minister of Mines and Energy to their left,......look up, nod to Tariq Ghuman, then looked to the next gentleman in the next seat, look to their MLA's speaking notes and read out his name and acknowledge ..... A.......


Those speaking notes!  Have they been shredded?

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Legislative Precinct Regulation

On the Public Tour of the Legislative building here's a note on Safety:

To protect the sprinkler system, tent poles or stakes cannot be driven into the ground or lawns.

What is under the that lawn, what is the load capacity:

100lbs/sq.ft.

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What better time than to troop off to Victoria on Monday, to protest the Government's handling of the Teachers negotiations.  For Seniors, its free ferry service.....  oh, do we need to reserve a seat Inside the Legislature, and how do we go about that.... contact our local MLA.... you might get introduced, made welcome, if there's enough time.