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Premier to Wait to Comment on BCUC Ruling

By 250 News

Friday, January 12, 2007 04:00 AM

Premier Gordon Campbell says he will wait until he has had a chance to read the full report, before commenting on the BCUC decision  that nixed the  power sales agreement with Alcan.

The Premier says there were several points that made the  proposal attractive to the Province "We saw a 70% reduction in emissions,  we saw  a thousand jobs a year for 35 years and we thought it was a reasonable deal, but, we said all along  that we were going to send it to the Utilities Commission so  I think its important  for me to read the Utilities Commission  report before I go beyond that." 

The deal was based on Alcan producing power for $10 per MWH and selling that power to BC Hydro for $70 per MWH.  Yesterday, Alcan's Director of Corporate Affairs, Richard Prokopanko, referred to the BCUC decision as a "minor setback".

The company he said, planned to pump $2 billion dollars into the Kitimat region in the way of a modernization of the aluminum smelter.  He claims the upgrade would have allowed the Kitimat plant to run "flat out" for the next 35 - 40 years.


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Comment Posted by: Tom Masich on January 12 2007 12:07 PM
How far are we going to go in the mining development of the Province. I believe strongly in the development of our natural resource base wut with serious caution. As we open more and more mines are we going to be dumping the waste into fresh water lakes that our the source of our major rivers. Tesico mines getting the okay to use Fish Lake in the Caribou as a storage for the mine waste, and the proposed expansion of Kemis in the use of Duncan lake is pure asimply insanity.
If the procedure is so fail safe then I ssuggest they draw their Domestic water from a close downstream source that they are polluting. It might cause them to look seariously at the facts.
Comment Posted by: Tom Masich on January 12 2007 12:07 PM
How far are we going to go in the mining development of the Province. I believe strongly in the development of our natural resource base wut with serious caution. As we open more and more mines are we going to be dumping the waste into fresh water lakes that our the source of our major rivers. Tesico mines getting the okay to use Fish Lake in the Caribou as a storage for the mine waste, and the proposed expansion of Kemis in the use of Duncan lake is pure asimply insanity.
If the procedure is so fail safe then I ssuggest they draw their Domestic water from a close downstream source that they are polluting. It might cause them to look seariously at the facts.