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Ratepayers Unite Against Rising Costs: Keep the Peace Valley, Keep Electric Rates Low.

 Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined August 2016
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Replying to @Lidsville
With no limit on spending, due to previous and current gov't lack of oversight, all resources will go to that as it did with the North Bank redesign after tension crack issues. @BCRatePayers in a bad place as @bchydro cave$ in to poor project management and political pressure.
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BillHorne@billsqueegee18 Apr 2020
What is "Jurassic Jello"? This kind of unstable ground on which BC Hydro thinks it can safely build a dam on the Peace River at #SiteC: youtu.be/JAp4_DYchxs #bcpoli
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Replying to @DreadnexInc @BCbrews @jjhorgan
Is it any coincidence that the #SiteC Dam fits nicely with the #NAWAPA plan to divert BC rivers to provide water for California & the American SW? Do we destroy our own ability to feed ourselves and our independence? Scary times.
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.@jjhorgan You have the perfect out! We need the peace for food security, not for flooding #SiteC - There are alternatives watershedsentinel.ca/article…
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YooGwa@YooGwa17 Apr 2020
Same questions for #SiteC @DrBonnieHenry?
Climate Watcher 🔥 (@pmagn) profile pictureClimate Watcher 🔥
@pmagn17 Apr 2020
Y the heck r those BC flyin-out mancamps open #bcpoli? @adriandix Coronavirus outbreak hits Alberta’s Kearl Lake oil sands camp: 3 pos 6 isolation @MikeSmythNews .@steeletalk .@simisara980 @keithbaldrey @richardzussman .@CDCofBC .@CPHO_Canada theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Coronavirus outbreak hits Alberta’s Kearl Lake oil sands camp

Coronavirus outbreak hits Alberta’s Kearl Lake oil sands camp

Alberta health officials are working with the remote Northern Alberta oil sands camp after a COVID-19 outbreak left three workers with the disease and six more in isolation as they await test results

theglobeandmail.com
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Tonkatsu@TonkatsuBC22 Apr 2020
Replying to @MikeHudema
Really?? @Canada still building #SiteC and #pipeline ...not moving forward with environmentally friendlier options
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Replying to @Dave_Eby
@Dave_Eby There they are again, the #FraudSquad @BCGreens pretending to care about the environment & #Indigenous rights. This photo taken shortly before epic sell-out for govt jobs. #SiteC
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Omg no wonder. And still flying tar sand workers #pipeline workers to and from #mancamps all over the country. #sitec.. etc This pandemic will be with us forever. Then Gov will say time to go back to work! Ugh
David Climenhaga (@djclimenhaga) profile pictureDavid Climenhaga@djclimenhaga22 Apr 2020
Alberta safety inspection of Cargill slaughterhouse done by FaceTime, with no actual inspector on site. bit.ly/3cHhCKD #ableg #Abhealth #COVID19
Alberta safety inspection of Cargill slaughterhouse done by FaceTime, with no actual inspector on...

Alberta safety inspection of Cargill slaughterhouse done by FaceTime, with no actual inspector on...

Alberta Labour’s occupational health and safety inspector didn’t actually visit the Cargill Inc. meatpacking plant in High River when the ministry inspected its COVID-19 safety measures on April 15....

albertapolitics.ca
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Lindsay Brown@Lidsville20 Apr 2020
Hard to say if this is identical to what's hundreds of feet down but engineers who know the area says this stuff goes extremely deep & as you can see in Bill's thread, the #SiteC spox says the dam is being built "on shales." This is what happens when politicians override experts.
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Lindsay Brown@Lidsville20 Apr 2020
Not hard to see why this originally $6 billion dollar dam is now $11 bn & climbing. Everything is more expensive because it's on this unstable ancient ash. Also, every time they dig through it it releases silica dust, & Worksafe BC has fined them $$$ for exposing workers. #SiteC
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Replying to @sitecproject
More expen$ive underwater debris to be left behind. #sitec sunk cost category.
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Lindsay Brown@Lidsville20 Apr 2020
Replying to @sitecproject
That methylmercury-filled reservoir for #SiteC will back up the Moberly River, poisoning its fish. And any debris trapped there will rot underwater, its anaerobic decomposition releasing masses of methane. But this is a good news story? #bcpoli
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CommonsBC@commonsbc21 Apr 2020
Replying to @commonsbc @CreeksideAlison
So your tweet is correct, tho #SiteC doesn't so much subsidize as greenwash LNG, & worse, most of that greenwashing is fake. BC govt makes noise about "electrifying" fracking but it's not industry-wide (& we had enough electricity to do it without Site C) nationalobserver.com/2019/09…
In British Columbia, critics see a push to greenwash natural gas

In British Columbia, critics see a push to greenwash natural gas

Although the electrification of industry is a broadly positive step, public money spent extending the scope and life expectancy of natural gas production in B.C. is greenwashing at its worst, critics...

nationalobserver.com
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Lindsay Brown@Lidsville21 Apr 2020
Please share! For Earth Day, @resistmegadams alliance has released new 5 min film linking US energy policy to the cultural, environ'l & economic harms caused by Canadian hydropower dams & their transmission corridors! #cdnpoli #SiteC #bcpoli #MuskratFalls facebook.com/watch/?v=169744…
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BillHorne@billsqueegee21 Apr 2020
George Heyman said, "It's a great day to stand with First Nations to protect traditional territories & traditional uses ... we stand with you today & we paddle with you today to bring this project to an end. " (2016) #SiteC #bcpoli
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Replying to @VaughnPalmer
Maybe now we can get to see Quarterly Progress Report 18 for the #sitec dam. It is more than apparent to anyone watching that the overruns there won't be flattering to Gov't or @bchydro and there should be no reason for it not to be out already.
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’Hello, Mr. Attorney General?’ @Dave_Eby I wish to report a fraud. #SiteC
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Lindsay Brown@Lidsville22 Apr 2020
Happening now - not too late to join #bcpoli #SiteC #foodsecurity #vanpoli
PVEA (@SavePeaceValley) profile picturePVEA@SavePeaceValley22 Apr 2020
For Earth Day (Wed April 22, 2020), here's a #SiteC-related online event hosted by @fightsiteC at noon: "Feast for the Peace - Let's Talk Food Security over Lunch" - Please join! Please share! facebook.com/events/21854111… #bcpoli
Feast for the Peace - Let's Talk Food Security over Lunch

Feast for the Peace - Let's Talk Food Security over Lunch

Food event by FightC on Wednesday, April 22 2020

facebook.com
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Replying to @jdouglaslittle @RadicalSister15
If voters had to pay for the #sitec dam now rather than having to wait for the $12B and counting debt to hit the books @bchydro a whole lot more of them would change their votes. Diversion deadline miss will add considerably to costs. Bond raters won't look kindly on added debt.
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Replying to @BCbrews @_OKeeffe_ @Harold_Steves @jjhorgan
Stop #SiteC is what @GreenpeaceCA @amnesty @DavidSuzukiFDN @wendyholm @Harold_Steves @treaty8 all say. Problem is, @BCNDPCaucus are owned by @SNCLavalin & other multinationals. Wonder why @BCGreens did not insist upon no Site C as part of their pact with @bcndp if they cared? Ha
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