Canadian Press, Times Colonist, Feb 22 2013

VICTORIA - The massive, energy windfall British Columbia pocketed more than a decade ago at the expense of power-starved Californians has sparked an ongoing high-voltage legal case that currently has an arm of Crown-owned BC Hydro potentially owing hundreds of millions of dollars.

CBC News, Feb 21, 2013

B.C. taxpayers could end up refunding Californians millions in electricity sales

The B.C. government and official opposition are defending a BC Hydro subsidiary that is accused of manipulating energy prices during the California energy crisis more than 12 years ago.

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2012

The next time your electricity bill prompts you to curse your local utility, here's another target where you should direct your anger:

Jaxon Van Derbeken, SFGate.com, July 2, 2012

Nearly two years after the pipeline explosion that killed eight people and devastated a neighborhood in San Bruno, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. considers 239 of its natural-gas transmission lines to be at risk of a similar failure, according to a company assessment obtained by The Chronicle.

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2012

Much of the focus behind Canada’s push to build a new oil pipeline to the West Coast has been to diversify its markets, to reduce its reliance on the U.S. as a customer. The Canadian government says it wants to start selling oil to China and South Korea.

By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, January 4, 2012

California’s new carbon cap-and-trade regulations, which came into effect Jan. 1, will require BC Hydro’s power exporting arm to buy costly carbon credits on its energy exports beginning in January, 2013, likely wiping out Hydro’s primary export market and increasing the cost of electricity to B.C. consumers in the process, a B.C. energy economist said Tuesday.

By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, November 18, 2011

B.C.'s future in ambitious greenhouse-gas deal unclear

By Garance Burke and Jason Dearen, Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 2011

Clean energy got a boost from a 2006 California law mandating it. But some clean energy projects are so expensive, they'll raise consumers' utility bills for decades.

By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, October 21, 2011

Energy-trading arm claims clean-energy exemption for U.S. power supplier is discriminatory

Chris Genovali, Huffington Post, August 16, 2011

Conflating the interests of the shareholders and investors of energy giants such as Enbridge with those of the Canadian people has become the central talking point for the promoters of Alberta's tar sands. That deliberate conflation is all about generating public support for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, which would see a twinned pipeline constructed from the tar sands to British Columbia and then the subsequent transport of what many have called the world's dirtiest oil by supertanker from B.C.'s north coast to offshore markets.

By Joyce Nelson, CCPA Monitor, April 2011

ENBRIDGE PIPELINE PLOT THICKENS

Most tar sands oil from pipeline is destined for U.S. ports

By John Holland and Adam Weintraub, The Associated Press, The Modesto Bee, April 12, 2011

Big hydro projects not included as renewable sources

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill affirming the state's goal of getting at least a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

News Release, CA Governor Brown, April 12, 2011

MILPITAS– Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today signed SBX1 2, which requires one-third of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources. The legislation increases California’s current 20 percent renewables portfolio standard target in 2010 to a 33 percent renewables portfolio standard by December 31, 2020.

Nathan Vander Klippe, Globe and Mail, Feb 28, 2011

Much of the crude flowing through a controversial new export pipeline project will go to the United States, rather than to Asian markets, regulatory documents filed by Enbridge Inc. reveal.

Arthur Caldicott, February 25, 2011

Energy legislation in California can break the BC government's hope of positioning BC as a major renewable electricity supplier to the state. Specifically, the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) defines certain attributes of generation facilities which effectively eliminate most of BC's generation projects.

By DEBRA KAHN of Greenwire, New York Times, January 5, 2011

Citing alleged health effects from electromagnetic waves, a county in the North San Francisco Bay Area has criminalized the installation of "smart" electric meters.

Geoff Dembicki, TheTyee, December 7, 2010

How Alberta, Ottawa and oil sands corporations are teaming to oppose climate change laws across America. First in a multi-part series.

By Evan Halper, Marc Lifsher and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, September 2, 2010

Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.

Laura Bassett, Huffington Post, September 2, 2010

Proposition 23, the so-called "California Jobs Initiative" threatening to suspend some of California's unprecedented clean air and renewable energy legislation, is raking in millions of dollars from Texas oil companies and special interest groups in the Midwest that stand to profit from rolled-back environmental regulation.

by Peter Seidman, Pacific Sun, Marin County, August 20, 2010

PG&E's not-so-smart approach to wireless power grid a shocking lesson in 'advanced' planning

When Pacific Gas and Electric Company stuck its finger in the smart meter socket it got a shock.

Chuck DeVore, California State Assemblyman, chuckdevore.com, August 14, 2010

California and the International Green Energy Racket

Rebecca Lindall, Globe and Mail, July 29, 2010

David Parkins for the Globe and Mail

Will the Clean Energy Act clear the way for British Columbia to become a significant exporter of clean energy?

Sean Holman, Public Eye, July 13, 2010

A former California assemblyman who spearheaded an effort to increase the use of green energy has said he doesn't think it's likely his state will count British Columbia's run-of-the-river power as renewable.

By Sean Holman, TheTyee.ca, July 8, 2010

Lobbying effort to get 'renewable energy' approval from state's politicians came up empty.

David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2010

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unsuccessful, $46 million attempt to pass Proposition 16 on Tuesday failed to persuade the company's own customers.