Thread by @Lidsville

BREAKING: A blockbuster report released today by the energy expert who exposed Enron and who has referred to #SiteC as "Enron of the North," Robert McCullough. He's the one who showed @jjhorgan how to cancel #SiteC painlessly in 2017. Read the bits on geology... #bcpoli #Cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/VaughnPalmer/status/1316015053586329600

@jjhorgan You may remember Robert McCullough from a few years ago - he was one of the experts submitting to the BCUC's #SiteC inquiry & also met with Horgan's cabinet to explain why the dam wasn't viable. And at the Site C Summit shortly after Horgan passed the dam:

https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/957013486260731904?s=20

@jjhorgan That presentation by McCullough methodically took apart Dave Eby's excuses for continuing with #SiteC which were the NDP's manufactured party line at the time. Eby should have known better; McCullough had explained it to cabinet before Horgan's decision

https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/957014376489263104

@jjhorgan ..It's time for the #BCNDP to stop messing around on #SiteC, to quit predetermining the outcome of the Milburn review by saying saying cancellation is not on the table, & to make that review independent & transparent as experts across the province have called for. Fix it. #bcpoli

@jjhorgan Excerpts from McCullough's #SiteC report:
"Site C’s ability to compete in an inc'y competitive energy sector has deteriorated
sharply over time. At current schedule, if output is exported Site C will cost ratepayers signif. more than the energy can be sold for in the market."

@jjhorgan ..McCullough: "Immediate cancellation of #SiteC will likely save BC Hydro ratepayers $116 million/year & the savings to ratepayers will grow over time as the cost of solar & wind continue to drop. Cancellation of Site C will also avoid significant geotechnical risks." #bcpoli

@jjhorgan ..You get a sense of the sheer mountain of wrongdoing by BC Hydro and the BC govt, particularly in the withholding of information, in this section of McCullough's report on geotechnical problems and associated cost: #bcpoli

@jjhorgan "BCHydro is the last major utility along the I-5 corridor to pursue high cost trad'l energy projects. Industry focus has moved to lowcost renewable projects & battery storage. Load forecasts are low–even negative–as conservation & tech improv'ts have outpaced pop'n growth" #SiteC

@jjhorgan .. It gets better. "Even in 2017, the relevance of @BCHydro’s estimates to the real world surrounding B.C. was questionable." P. 5 …3-42ea-a8f0-a29cda354660.usrfiles.com/ugd/1694d3_b5b… #bcpoli #SiteC

@jjhorgan @bchydro ..This section on the problem with RCC (roller compacted concrete) pp. 7-8 is new to me & is yet another straw on the camel's back of geotechnical concerns at #SiteC. RCC is what the slipping "buttresses" on the south bank are made of. #bcpoli

@jjhorgan @bchydro It's worth reading all 16 pages but one last thing: McCullough's report forces the Milburn review into a corner. McCullough is an energy expert; Milburn is not. I don't see how in the face of this report & its advice to cancel that Milburn can handwave #SiteC's problems away.

What will be very interesting to watch is whether mainstream media touches this Site C report. No stories on it so far...

But how many more reports do we need saying #SiteC is not in the public interest & is in fact the opposite, a corporate welfare parasitism of public money? The BCUC Inquiry report should have been enough to stop it. So should every BC Hydro Site C report on geotech instability.