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Hydro future debated

A CITIZEN’S group worried about the future of
B.C. Hydro stages a meeting here tomorrow night.

B.C. Citizens for Public Power is opposed to any
move to privatize all or parts of the provincial
crown corporation and has started a class action
lawsuit in response.

Speaking will be Jim Sinclair, a board member
of B.C, Citizens for Public Power and the president
of the B.C. Federation of Labour.

The session begins at 8 p.m. at the Elks’s Hall.

In the meantime, B.C. Hydro is taking bids from
companies interested in generating their own
power which would then be put up for sale using
the corporation’s transmission lines.

And, an end to a B.C. Hydro rate freeze next
year could result in higher prices.

Icy road conditions

blamed for rollover

TWO TERRACE men suffered minor injuries after
the truck they were in crashed when it hit a patch
of ice on Hwy 16.

' The rollover happened in the afternoon Oct. 29.
The two men were roughly 30 km west of Terrace
near Si. Croix Creek when the truck hit the ice and
rolled over, said RCMP Constable Natasha Stultz.

She said the ice formed in a shady section of the
highway.

Shoplifters steal jeans
TERRACE POLICE say two shoplifters made off
with clothing from a Lazelle Ave. store Oct. 30.

Around 4:30 p.m. a couple saying they were from
Prince Rupert spoke to staff at the 4700 block
clothing store, police say.

While staff were busy, the couple left the store
with three pairs of “Yo Yo” acid wash jeans and
several pairs of black underwear.

_ The couple was carrying a large Zellers bag with
towels and were wearing dark coloured jeans.

Anyone with information about this incident is
asked to cail police at 638-7400.

Rest stops spared

HIGHWAY REST stops in this area have been
spared, for now, from being closed or having their
pit toilets removed in an effort to save money on
the part of the transportation ministry.
Ministry official Don Ramsay said rest stops in
this area are considered to be a@ service to travel-
lers because they are far enough away from com-
munities or commercial operations where wash-
rooms and other amenities are available.
“There are some very solid reasons for keeping
them. They are a convenience and there is the ar-
gument they are a safety feature for people to take
test stops,” said Ramsay,
i | Still, Ramsay. said the, ministry generally doesn’t
AR feel, that, jestistops are. part, ‘of its, core :business.

Plans to close or downgrade rest stops up Hwy37
and in the Smithers area have been abandoned
after being criticized.

Kalum
road fix
half done

THAT ONE way narrow
section of the highway at
the south end of Kalum
Lake could be no more by
this time next year,

Crews have finished
clearing material that
could slide down to the
road for about 300 metres
of the 1.1km stretch and
there are plans to finish
the clearing next year and
build a base for a two-lane
highway.

The slope has been sli-
ding downward for years,
resulting in losing one lane
of what was a two-lane
road,

This year transportation
ministry geotechnical en-
gineers went in to find out
what kind of material was
sliding and how to prevent
it from happening in the
first place.

The result was this
year’s clearing and next
year’s plans, says ministry
project manager Greg
Ross.

“The object was to ex-
cavate the material and
Stabilize the slope,” he
said.

Involved with that was
placing a berm to hold the
upper slope.

Ross described this
year’s work as more diffi-
cult than what it is plan-
ned next year although the
distance to be covered is
greater.

Approximately
$500,000 was spent this
year on engineering and

clearing work with double .

that being estimated to
finish the project off.

Transportation officials |

are working on having the

section finished next year...

so as to match the planned
completion of a major road

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BC taxpayers and BC Hydro customers.

The Union of BC Municipalities .
“The UBCM does not support the privatization or sale of BC Hydro electrical generation,
transmission or distribution functions, nor does it support the contracting of administrative
services to Accenture, and urges the provincial government to recognize BC Hydro asa
strategic core public asset to preserve and promote energy advanta ges for British

Columbians.”

BC Hydro — and our affordable Public Power — is being
given away. A lawsuit is one way to stop the privatization,
deregulation and breakup of BC Hydro.

BC Hydro has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding to transfer one-
third of its operations and workers to Accenture, a controversial
Bermuda-based, multinational corporation. The details are secret but a
deal t to privatize BC Hydro is to be signed by December 2002.

British Columbians have the third-lowest electricity rates in North America, with reliable
delivery of clean, non-polluting hydro-electric power, thanks to the investments made by

Please help stop this disastrous privatization by giving your support to BC Citizens for
Public Power’s class action lawsuit. And please make a financial contribution to keep this

campaign going.

BC CITIZENS FOR .* ! a

BC Hydro, owned 100% by the people of British Columbia, has an integrated system of
generation, transmission, distribution, and customer service that has benefited residents,
businesses, and government, In the past two years, BC Hydro has provided $1.7 billion
for health care, education, and other services.

But the BC provincial government is moving quickly to privatize key parts of BC Hydro,
with a dramatic increase in electricity rates of up to 100% to follow, according to the
Energy Policy Task Force interim report.

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IN THE MATTER OF A PROPOSED CLASS ACTION
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA SUPREME COURT .
- AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND BC. HYDRO. ee

Passed unanimously at UBCM Convention , September 27, 2002

Industry

“We believe the current system is doing a good job of providing reliable power ‘at reasonable
rates and, with appropriate adaptations, can continue to meet the needs of BC consumers for

many years to come.”
Jaint Industry Electricity Steering Committee, Tepresenting 30 of BC's largest corporations

Letter of Intent

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California’s Top Energy Official

“The question I’m asking is: What is it that’s broke with a system that's providing cheap,
reliable electricity, that's paying sizeable dividends to the government, that has a rainy day .
fund and that has money available for new capital projects? It is basically utility heaven.
There isn’t a state in the union that wouldn't give its eye teeth for a power system like B. c.

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intention and wish to'be included in the class, should the British Columbia Supreme Court cy by ee
the: action initiated by the Society as a class action.

I understand that Leo McGrady Q.C., of the law firm of MeGrady Baugh 2
& Whyte, is counsel for the Society and the representative plaintifls - ae
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David Freeman, energy expert and chair, California Power Authority

www. citizensforpublicpower.ca

Visit our website for full details or to sign on to support the class action lawsuit

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