Defending Run-of-River
Vancouver Sun received a letter from a concerned citizen yesterday, which may well reflect the concerns of a lot of people within reach of run-of-river projects.
Instead of going out on a limb myself, I’ve asked the minds at Plutonic Power Corp. (TSX: PCC) for their take. In green are excerpts from the letter to the editor:
“What kind of planning got us to go from selling a surplus of clean hydroelectric power to importing a shortfall of 18 per cent (mostly dirty) power? Are we crisis scrambling with ill-conceived projects like “run of river”?
The majority of BC’s hydroelectric assets were built in the 60s/70s and BC had a surplus of energy up until approximately 2001, which is when the province started to become a net importer of energy. Read the rest of this entry »
