BC Election May 9 '17

“Democratic Socialism” in America, Blueprint for a New Party: Bernie Sanders By Sen. Bernie Sanders and Seth Ackerman Global Research, November 16, 2016 Monthly Review 16 November 2016

2 pre-election actions by the BC Liberals should be payed attention too imv.

if we don't we're going to get them after the election if the BC Liberals get again. the Liberals will say we announced prior to the election.

1. a huge jump in ICBC rates maybe 45%

2. a BC hydro transmission rate

and here's John Horgan pissing around with making a half assed commitment on grizzly hunts. not a mention of increassed ICBC rates and imposing transmission fees.

ffs how can i vote them?

B.C.'s Morgane Oger first transgender woman to be nominated by major party

Well this is unfortunate: http://www.straight.com/news/849096/vancouver-island-new-democrat-georgi...

WTH

Death threats?!

kropotkin1951 wrote:

Basement Dweller wrote:

Well this is unfortunate: http://www.straight.com/news/849096/vancouver-island-new-democrat-georgi...

WTH

Death threats?!

Here's a link. Its hard to know what to make of the story since there are so few facts in it.

http://www.straight.com/news/849096/vancouver-island-new-democrat-georgi...

Well... here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/335326856/Copy-of-leaked-lawyers-letter#...

http://www.straight.com/news/849096/vancouver-island-new-democrat-georgi...

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"Looking back on the campaign and the political process generally, partisan politics can cause people to say things about each other that might not otherwise be said more charitably or with more understanding. In so many cases, it seems to me there is a better way than the current partisan process to move what is really at issue forward in a positive and productive way. Empathy and equanimity are key. I am resolute in my belief that there is a better way to do politics and I look forward to continuing to work within and for my community toward a better future for all."

If this is genuine I'd vote for this woman any day; but she'd never survive in Canadian politics - more's the pity.

kropotkin1951 wrote:

Thanks for that. The party needs to step up to the plate and at minimum censure the person responsible for the inappropriate e-mails and issue a sincere apology and an open door to continue on seeking the nomination.

Agreed, just because the offender has obviously been around for a long-time and has connections should not keep him from getting the appropriate discipline. This kind of crap drives a lot of good people from politics.

This includes the other side of the story: 

http://theprovince.com/news/bc-politics/mike-smyth-legal-threats-fly-in-...

It’s time to confront the exploitation of B.C.’s environment

The environment in British Columbia has taken a beating since the arrival of Captain James Cook at Nootka Sound in 1778, when his crew traded small items for rich sea-otter furs.

The pelts were later sold in China for up to $300 apiece, which would be equivalent to roughly $5,000 today. So the fur trade stirred its own kind of gold fever, and in no time Pacific Coast sea otters were on the verge of extinction.

In 1858, the Fraser Canyon gold rush pushed resource extraction to a whole new level, as 30,000 gold seekers sluiced gravel on every bar and at every stream mouth from Hope to Lillooet. Nobody ever recorded what environmental damage was done in that frenzy, but that's where a lot of the Fraser's salmon spawned. At any rate, it set a pattern that has been repeated since, with resource extraction taking precedence over habitat protection and aboriginal rights.

Gold. Fur. Forests. Coal. Hydro power. LNG. Oil....

So you didn't answer me NR. We know you don't support the BC NDP so who is it you think should be Premier? Are you endorsing Christie?

so many things to say so little time......

the globe and mail article though true in some ways it makes me question its real propaganda point. its got no solution no way forward just the same usual appealing to splitting the vote on the left imv.

the whole of Canada is one big resource extraction pit and has been since the beginning of colonialization. BC is no more unusual than any other province or country in the world both now and throughout history.

i'd love for it all to stop and the production and use toxic chemicals but i need to see a vision of how we can get there not more articles on what we already know. it makes me feel hopeless and feel just maybe all humans should go extinct.

it's not healthy to feel like this and it's no wonder so many people are freaking about sjw.

it's like an abusive partner always critical and demeaning but partaking of the same damn products brought to us by resource extraction we all have an use.

..txs for your post quizzical. your post remined me of this poet who speaks of a colonialization.

Rafeef Ziadah - 'We teach life, sir'

This investment in renewable energy has led to a dramatic growht in employment related to renewable energy.

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More than 8.1 million people are now employed by the renewable energy industry worldwide, an increase of five percent over last year, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

The number of renewable energy jobs worldwide went up in 2015 while jobs in the broader energy sector fell. In the United States, for example, renewable energy jobs increased six percent, but employment in oil and gas fell 18 percent.

That’s perhaps not surprising, as renewable energy continues to break records. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), utility-scale electrical generation from renewable sources like solar and wind hit an all-time high of 16.89 percent of the country’s total electricity generation in the first quarter of 2016. During the same time period in 2015, renewable energy's share of net generation was just 14 percent. Distributed solar photovoltaic and wind energy have also continue to grow quickly, the EIA found.

China has seen huge growth in its clean energy sector and now employs 3.5 million people, whereas oil and gas employ just 2.6 million. The countries with the most renewable energy jobs in 2015 were Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, and the US, according to IRENA.

 

https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/05/27/renewable-energy-jobs-keep-growing...

The business news network Bloomberg News 2016 report is summarizes the situation in its title "Wind and Sollar Are Crushing Fossil Fuels".

BC and Canada as a whole seems by and large to not recognize how profound this shift from fossil fuels to renewables actually is, and continues on the fossi fuel path. It iis thus in danger of being left behind in the buggy whip industry of the 21st century.  

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Wind and solar have grown seemingly unstoppable.

While two years of crashing prices for oil, natural gas, and coal triggered dramatic downsizing in those industries, renewables have been thriving. Clean energy investment broke new records in 2015 and is now seeing twice as much global funding as fossil fuels.

One reason is that renewable energy is becoming ever cheaper to produce. Recent solar and wind auctions in Mexico and Morocco ended with winning bids from companies that promised to produce electricity at the cheapest rate, from any source, anywhere in the world, said Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board for Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).  

"We're in a low-cost-of-oil environment for the foreseeable future," Liebreich said during his keynote address at the BNEF Summit in New York on Tuesday. "Did that stop renewable energy investment? Not at all."

Here's what's shaping power markets, in six charts from BNEF:

Renewables are beating fossil fuels 2 to 1Investment in Power Capacity, 2008-2015  Source: BNEF, UNEP

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/wind-and-solar-are-cru...

jerrym wrote:

NorthReport wrote:

Avoiding the issue does not make it go away,

Yes the issue of global warming isn't going away, despite your and Christy's ignoring its impacts.

This thread, and NR's comment quoted above, are about the BC election, not global warming

The Pembina Institute has created a Clean Energy map of BC showing where renweable energy jobs exist in BC and is growing despite the relatively little support it receives from the BC Liberals. 

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Their study found 14,100 jobs in the renewable energy sector in British Columbia. Penelope Comette, director of clean energy economy for the Pembina Institute, says they created the Clean Energy Jobs Map to visualize what and where these jobs are. (In the interest of transparency, Green Energy Futures is a project of the Pembina Institute).

The map shows 5,800 jobs with conventional large hydro and the remaining 8,300 jobs split between run-of-river, biogas, biomass, wind and solar. About 7,700 of those jobs are direct jobs. ....

For Robert Baxter, the journey to green jobs began with a few solar courses at BCIT, after completing his liberal arts and business university degrees. His job in the beginning involved bolting solar modules on buildings. Now he designs systems and his renewable energy coop is hiring. That is the story of renewable energy, many jobs spread out over a wide geography.

Surprisingly, B.C. has very little support for renewable energy itself.

“If we were to see something like a feed-in tariff program here in BC, I think things would go absolutely crazy,” says Baxter. “There’s so much pent-up demand. Right now, the economics are still fairly long term. If we can make the economics more short term, we’d definitely see a huge increase in business.”

http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/renewable-energy-jobs

jerrym you have wrongly attributed a comment to me which I did not make. It is  in fact your own comment. See below, and please correct.

jerrym wrote:

 

Edzell wrote:

jerrym wrote:

NorthReport wrote:

Avoiding the issue does not make it go away,

Yes the issue of global warming isn't going away, despite your and Christy's ignoring its impacts.

This thread, and NR's comment quoted above, are about the BC election, not global warming

What one believes about global warming and employment related to the type of energy jobs developed in BC will be central in this election. In addition, NR's whole argument for voting BC Liberal is based on it providing lots of jobs. I dispute this electoral approach on both environmental, economic and employment grounds.

quizzical wrote:

the whole of Canada is one big resource extraction pit and has been since the beginning of colonialization. BC is no more unusual than any other province or country in the world both now and throughout history.

i'd love for it all to stop and the production and use toxic chemicals but i need to see a vision of how we can get there not more articles on what we already know. it makes me feel hopeless and feel just maybe all humans should go extinct.

it's not healthy to feel like this and it's no wonder so many people are freaking about sjw.

it's like an abusive partner always critical and demeaning but partaking of the same damn products brought to us by resource extraction we all have an use.

You should not consider Canada's record with regard to combatting global warming typical of the rest of the world. It isn't. We were ranked dead last in combating global warming amongst developed nations under Harper. Trudeau's climate change plan is now countered by his pipeline approvals, which when combined with Trump's Keystone pipeline upcoming approval and BC's LNG projects, leaving us largely dependent on fossil fuels, as much of the rest of the world shifts away from fossil fuels.

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there's one category in which Canada ranks dead last among industrialized nations: its efforts to combat climate change.

"The Climate Change Performance Index," published annually by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe, lists Canada among the world's worst at no. 58.

The report assigned scores to different countries based on factors such as emission levels, efficiency, renewable energy and climate policy.

And while the authors say that "no single country is yet on track to prevent dangerous climate change," they are especially tough on Canada, saying it "still shows no intention of moving forward with climate policy and therefore remains the worst performer of all [industrialized] countries."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/21/canada-climate-change-ranking-oe...

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Canada “has the dubious honor of being the only developed country with an environment score which has gone down since we first calculated the CDI [in 2003],” the report said. “This reflects rising fossil fuel production and its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only treaty governing the emissions of heat-trapping gasses. Canada has dropped below the U.S. into bottom place on the environment component.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canada-dead-last-in-oecd-ranki...

jerrym wrote:

Sorry about the misquote above Edzell.

You could have left it at that but you took it the opportunity to pile on more wads of stuff supporting your personal beliefs.

If you think I'm going to spend hours of my time wading through the barrage of glaring eye strain you try to beat us over the head with, you're out of your tree.

The irony is I probably agree with a lot of it but I'm not putting on my hip waders to work my way through the thick swamp of it, to find out. Your posts are like the concerts I've walked out of because however much I might like the music, it's just too bloody loud and an arrogant affront to my ears.