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800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases
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BC Hydro signs a deal for a new gas-fired generation plant to start operation in 2007 that will spew 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, doubling the province's annual greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation. |
Ontario adopts a renewable fuel standard to take effect in 2007 that requires vehicle fuels to contain at least 5% ethanol, and will reduce provincial greenhouse gas emissions by 800,000 tonnes annually. |
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0 MW of wind by 2005
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BC Hydro has exactly 0 megawatts of wind generated electricity on the grid, and plans are to add exactly 0 MW in 2005.
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BC's neighbour Alberta has 275 MW of installed wind capacity, Washington has 243 MW and plans to add 645 MW in 2005; Idaho plans 381 MW in 2005; even Yukon has 1 MW.
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BC waits on wind, while other places retrofit.
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Announced in September 2003, the 58.5 MW Holberg Wind Farm, BC's first wind project, may actually come onstream in late 2006 or early 2007.
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20 year old wind turbines in Palm Springs, Tehachapi and Altamont Pass in California are to be repowered in early 2005.
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All this by way of suggesting that BC has a long way to go to embrace renewables and a sustainable energy vision. Yet the road has been obvious and the GSX Concerned Citizens Coalition and many, many others have been telling government and BC Hydro for years, where that road is. But even with today's announcement, the government clearly doesn't get it. Heavy on high-tech, nowhere on local jobs, local impacts.
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