The Editor,
“Troubling move by Green leader” (Letters, The Tri-City News, May 24).
Ken Holowanky’s letter could not be more wrong. Andrew Weaver was a guest speaker at Clean Energy BC’s (CEBC) spring conference and annual general meeting on June 1. The registration fee covers coffee, lunch and room rental. It also provides modest support for a non-profit industry association doing all it can to share its message that private sector electricity works well in complementary manner with the public sector utility that sets all the terms and condition in which it buys our members’ clean and cost effective electricity.
Fourteen per cent of B.C.’s grid electricity comes from CEBC members that have projects that have been through full environmental reviews to harness wind, solar, hydro, biomass and biogas.
Recent five-year independent monitoring studies are showing that well sited run-of-river projects are not having negative environmental impacts.
Given Canada’s commitment to the Paris Accord, we support strong climate action and the need to get to greater us e of renewable electricity as we transition from a society still very dependent upon GHG-emitting fossil fuels.
I expect Mr. Weaver to address some of these themes in his address.
No funds are going to the BC Green Party.
Paul Kariya, Executive Director, Clean Energy BC
