VICTORIA — Word that the Waneta Expansion Project will go ahead is great news for residents of the Kootenays, providing many jobs and a boost to the local economy, but the B.C. Liberals made a bad deal for the long-term health of the region, say New Democrats.

News Release - July 6, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Transmission Corporation moved back under B.C. Hydro control Monday, seven years after the B.C. Liberals tore apart the Crown corporation. The move marks the end of an expensive failed experiment and proves that the B.C. Liberals should not be making important energy decisions without public scrutiny, say New Democrats.

News Release - June 1, 2010

VICTORIA - The Official Opposition are vowing to fight the B.C. Liberals' Clean Energy Act in the legislature this week. The bill would allow $10 billion in spending without appropriate public oversight, remove consumer protection from unnecessary hydro rate hikes and shift more of British Columbians' money into the hands of private power companies, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - May 7, 2010

VICTORIA - The Official Opposition is pleased that the B.C. Liberals have promised to shelve a private power project that threatened to devastate a huge swath of wilderness on B.C.'s mid-coast.

Under questioning in the legislature on Wednesday by Opposition MLA for North Island Claire Trevena, Environment Minister Barry Penner promised not to allow the Klinaklini River private power project go ahead.

News Release - May 5, 2010

VICTORIA - MLA John Horgan will be visiting the Victoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre at 9:30am on Thursday, May 6^th to pick out the heels he will be wearing in next week's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.

News Release - Apr. 29, 2010

VICTORIA - The introduction of the Clean Energy Act has gutted the regulatory powers of the B.C. Utilities Commission, and will lead to further rate increases for B.C. Hydro customers, say the Official Opposition.

News Release - April 22, 2010

News Release - March 11, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberal government is forging ahead with plans to subsidize the private power industry at the expense of all British Columbians with the awarding of contracts worth untold millions of dollars, says Opposition energy critic John Horgan.

"Under the direction of the B.C. Liberal government, B.C. Hydro has announced a commitment today to buy thousands of gigawatt-hours of electricity we may not even need, with more on the way," said Horgan.

News Release - Mar. 3, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberals are trying to sneak through a 29 per cent electricity rate hike, demanding B.C. Hydro deliver an extra $254 million to government in the next year alone, Opposition energy critic John Horgan said today.

News Release - January 28, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberals are mismanaging the opportunity to develop an energy plan that is in the best interest of British Columbians through their secretive, closed-door approach to hearings into electricity policy, say the Official Opposition.