Despite an allergy to politicianese, I'm going to grit my teeth and watch this. 3,2,1...
Well, @ShachiKurl is doing a good moderating this bag of badgers
@ShachiKurl ..Good lord, did Andrew Wilkinson actually just say that allowing the free market to "create more housing will cause prices to come down"? Oh that has really worked for the past 20 years (pours self another drink) #vanpoli #vvanre #BCLeadersDebate #bcpoli
Hey why does Shachi keep telling Sonia to shorter her Qs but doesn't jump in on Horgan's long-winded ones - or is it just me
Did a coach tell Horgan that calling Wilkinson "man" would fly. Wilkinson is less "man" than anyone in BC politics. Try "my good man" or "M'lord"
..Finally #SiteC question: is it your dumpster fire? Horgan blathering on about "point of no return" does not exist and JOHN NO, $4BN HAD *NOT* BEEN SPENT AS THE BCUC HAS TOLD YOU OVER AND OVER, IT'S $1.5BN AND YOU KNOW IT #BCLeadersDebate
But it's irrelevant how much has been spent on #siteC anyway @jjhorgan, that's the sunk cost fallacy which you keep falling into and pulling us in with you. "Point of no return" IS the sunk cost fallacy, every time you say it. Please knock it off. #BCLeadersDebate #bcpoli
@jjhorgan ..My god, I actually agree with Andrew Wilkinson on something - CleanBC *is* a total sham, and GHGs HAVE risen under the NDP. Fracking and Site C are part of CleanBC. It's not "continent leading". Glad to hear this aired. (Hypocrisy from the BC libs tho) #BCLeadersDebate
@jjhorgan OK now Horgan is just lying about old growth. Its logging has accelerated under the BC NDP and its recent old growth announcement was empty spin - and too many ENGOs got sucked into approving of it. Had they read it? #bcpoli #BCLeadersDebate
@jjhorgan Is Wilkinson serious? The homelessness and housing problems got turbocharged under the BC Libs first, even if the NDP haven't done enough. Can Wilkinson hear himself? Speculation, pro-developer policies, no social housing..Come on BC Libs, you're on thin ice here #bcleadersdebate

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14 Oct
Just attended an excellent #SiteC webinar put on by the N. American Megadam Resistance Alliance (NAMRA, @resistmegadams) - "Canada's Sinking Site C Dam" with brilliant presentations by @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell. Watch it here: facebook.com/resistmegadams… #bcpoli
@resistmegadams @sarahcox_bc @candacebatycki @Norm_Farrell ..Some highlights from today's international Zoom event on #SiteC: @sarahcox_bc noting the difference between the US & Canada/BC in terms of access to information: the US supplies info immediately; BC govt can take many months, a year, sometimes refuse entirely. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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14 Oct
Vaughn Palmer: "Only when @jjhorgan is safely in office will public get straight goods about Site C - NDP show every intention of getting through election without addressing any of legitimate concerns raised by #SiteC opponents." #bcpoli #BCelxn2020
vancouversun.com/opinion/column…
@jjhorgan .. Top energy expert "Robert McCullough suggests arguments for cancellation are stronger today, given the continuing coverup of geotechnical risks at #SiteC.. After 10 mos of study BC Hydro has not addressed a # of seismic & design concerns first reported to mgmt in Dec 2019"
@jjhorgan ...Just to repeat that word: "coverup."

The "continuing coverup of geotechnical risks at #SiteC."

@jjhorgan #bchydro #bcpoli #bcelexn2020
Read 4 tweets
13 Oct
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
@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:
@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
Read 13 tweets
12 Oct
Hi @wcel, @standearth @dogwoodbc @H20Alliance @GeorgiaStraitBC @MySea2Sky @SkeenaWild @WestKootenay @WatershedWatch_

You & Organizing For Change are hosting the Oct 15 environment & climate debate. Please ensure all 3 candidates are asked about #SiteC. #bcpoli #BCElection2020
@wcel @standearth @dogwoodbc @H20Alliance @GeorgiaStraitBC @MySea2Sky @SkeenaWild @WestKootenay @WatershedWatch_ At the prior online climate/environment debate, hosted by @Pembina, Karen Tam Wu didn't ask about #SiteC, nor were any of our many submitted Qs on #SiteC chosen, unsurprising as as Pembina has been uniformly mute on the dam. I am hoping you will do better. #bcpoli #BCElection2020
@wcel @standearth @dogwoodbc @H20Alliance @GeorgiaStraitBC @MySea2Sky @SkeenaWild @WestKootenay @WatershedWatch_ @Pembina ..We can't keep putting all BC's future energy eggs & dollars in one basket, esp when it's the outdated, GHG-emitting, ecosystem-destroying, public money-wasting, LNG-justifying #SiteC dam. Please redress Pembina's overlooking of this issue by choosing a #SiteC question. #bcpoli
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12 Oct
Journalist friends say no prior govt has so often claimed it can't answer Qs/provide info &c "because we're in an election." Contradiction: govt can't answer #SiteC Qs but it can proceed with Peace River diversion for a failing dam under cover of election? #BCelxn2020 #bcpoli
Notice all the things this gov't continues to do under cover of election, while saying it can't do anything because the "govt" is in caretaker mode until Oct 24. How on earth was river diversion allowed to take place at #SiteC when, say, Horgan's Milburn review was incomplete?
This is leaving aside the disturbing fact that Horgan and Energy minister Bruce Ralston have signalled that #SiteC cancellation isn't even on the table as a possible conclusion of the opaque Milburn review (whose structure and terms of reference are totally unclear). #fixisin
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10 Oct
The NDP's rank betrayal on electoral reform is as bad for BC & our climate as its #SiteC flipflop. First Past the Post makes pivoting to address climate change v. difficult because votes don't represent a full breadth of BC views; unlike in PR, only a narrow band of us is heard.
Votes get heavily weighted at the margin of the 2 largest parties, so not only does a very narrow band of voters acquire virtually all the meaningful votes, 2 things happen:
1. both parties grow more alike
2. $$ lobbyists can easily centre huge $$$$ on influencing those voters
..so in effect, First Past the Post actually materially changes - deforms - each party itself as each chases an easily corruptible/swayable narrow margin of voters at their mutual boundary. And people wonder why the NDP is looking more & more like BC Libs & pursuing fossil fuels.
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