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Worse, we already paid for massive gas turbines for #LNGCanada in Kitimat. Morneau & Trudeau gifted them to the foreign corps involved in 2018, to the tune of a quarter billion of our dollars - after selling the #SiteC dam to us saying it was needed to electrify ghte plant! Now we should pay billions to run destructive, vulnerable electricity transmission lines 1000+ km? #bcpoli

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You really have to read the article to understand how outrageous the demand from #LNGCanada and other industrial fossil fuel actors is for subsidies and cheap electricity - the cost of which *you* would have to bear, even while your own hydro costs skyrocket. Short thread...

Large #industrial users like the #LNGCanada plant would need beefed up transmission and substations for that amount of power, and it appears #BCHydro can’t guarantee #LNG #Canada that it could provide that much power and the associated #infrastructure in time to make a Phase 2 build-out electric.

biv.com/article/2023/07/lng-ca

Business in VancouverLNG Canada throws down gauntlet to BC HydroBy Nelson Bennett