AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 04, 2002

B.C. Hydro changes are bad news for us

Dear Sir: You can’t have a discussion about

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letting Alcan sell

power instead of using it for smelting jobs in Kitimat

without considering what the Liberals are going to do to privatize B.C. Hydro or its parts. Alcan isan independent power producer and it would reap great profits if it could seli power directly to customers outside B.C, by using B.C. Hydro trans- mission lines. -

Al present B.C. Hydro buys surplus power from Alcan: This power, if it is sur- plus to B.C.’s ‘needs. is sold to the U.S. and Alberta by~ Powerex, the export branch of B.C. Hydro. They sell the power at a huge profit, and that profit goes to the shareholders. - the people of B.C. It keeps power prices to. British Columbians alt among the lowest in North. America, Why not? The power -is produced by flooding B.C. valleys or impacting the en- vironment in some way.and we, (B.C. Hydro) own the transmission tines. We paid for them:

Naturally, Alcan would like to sell its power directly to consumers. The profits ate bigger than they are in smelting alu- minum. Any independent power. producer would think the same, The B.C. govern- ment insists on inviting more independent power producers. -Rather than use -B.€, Hydro to expand power generation or keeping B.C. Hydro intact, they claim to create an investment climate to attract: the private interests hungry for the big profits available in provinces which al- ready have their hydro privatized. To do this they break up the parts of B.C. Hydra that have worked so weil together.

Make no mistake, any attempt to devi- ate from the vision WAC Bennett had in 1958 when he nationalized B.C. Electric will come at the expense of British Co-

Don’t worry about

Dear Sir:

Is the U.S. President a moron? Probab- ly not. Even though he did not do well in the education: system, it appears that his 1.Q. is above the number 50 which de- notes moron.

While Canadians as usual are falling over themselves to apologize, we are ig- noring the many insults that are uttered by our southern neighbours. U.S. newscas- ters and commentators have for-.many weeks ‘filled the airways with cracks about Canadians while elected povern- ment officials, some of whom appear to

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lumbians. The investment climate will demand that B.C. Hydro sell power to us at market (read higher) prices which will allow private companies the profits avail- able elsewhere. All the benefits will go to companies like, Accenture which is based in the: tax haven of Bermuda and which has been black- listed by the State of Ca- lifornia.

The Liberal. government has for. some’ ‘time now had. B.C. Hydro formalize plans

to pel rid of its customer services divi- sion, its information- technological ser- vices, its financial systems, its purchas- ing’ and disbursement services. These parts ‘of Hydro operations are to be provi- ded through contract with Accenture. The government has announced its new energy policy and they are telling you that everything will be fine. All the experts are telling you to expect substan-

‘tial increases in hydro rates over the

short-term and expect to’ pay a lot more in the future.

Dividing B.C. Hydre into various parts Temoves the only control that B.C. has to ensure that power remains cheap and al- tractive to folks who want to create jobs in B,C, When MLA Roger Harris says we have to structure. thal in such a manner that it compels Alcan to want to sell that closer to home than further, he’s admit- ting that we will pay world market prices for power and the high profits will make Alcan want to keep smelting aluminum. W.A.C. Bennett must be rolling over in his grave.

Helmut Giesbrecht, Terrace, B.C.

moron remark

have 1Qs at room temperatures, ate call- ing Canada “Canuckistan”, or our Prime Minister a “socialist” (an insult to social- ists). They’re insisting that Canadians are a bunch of freeloaders and wimps be- cause we are too slow to jump in the de- struction of Iraq bandwagon to achieve controi over these oil reserves.

So let’s not get our knickers in a knot over one civil servant who in a private conversation: -tells;.it sishe.’ ssees it, Per-

‘haps a lot of Canadians: ‘and-many Ameri-

cans agree with her. John Jensen, Terrace, B.C.

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Dear Sir:

I applaud the remarks made by Gary Mills re- garding Hubert Beyer’s column, J's like the Nazis all over again, Nov. 13, 2002. Who is kidding who? Western governments take their foreign policy direc- tives from Tel Aviv. As long’ as we continue to

—serew~ around with other

peoples’ countries, insult their sensibilities and rape them of their natural re- sources so we can drive around in-V10 SUVs, we will continue to get their attention.

The behaviour of the Is- raelis toward the Palesti- nians is modelled after the behaviour of the Nazis to- ward ‘the Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto.

, J.R.Walker, Terrace, B.C.

Beyer is right

Dear Sir:

The letter from Gary Mills (“Too much German guilt,” Nov. 20, 2002) in regards to Mr. Beyer’s Nov. 13, 2002 column (ft's like the Nazis all over again) was too much for me.

In my opinion the col- umn was truthful and ob- jective. I have no idea what Mr. Mills considers “balanced” to be.

But as a regular reader of The Terrace Standard | must say that I do not al- ways agree with each edi- torial, but it certainly does not give me the right to be downright rude, ignorant and disrespectful.

- IT can only assume that Mr. Mills never had the experiences that I unfortu- nately shared with Mr.

Beyer, even though we’

never met. wise AKeep up your~ good work.

Helga ‘Janke, Terrace, B.C,

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