Thread by @Lidsville

POPPYCOCK. This false electricity panic must stop. This is nuclear/hydro industry-created panic, for these sectors' own benefit. It's as bad as "WE NEED MOAR SUPPLY" in housing. And it's Clean Energy Canada touting it, as usual. (Thread) #bcpoli #SiteC thestar.com/politics/feder…

If you want to understand the future of electricity you should listen to grid experts, not the industries that stand to profit from massive increases in electricity generation: #NuclearEnergy & #BigHydro. Please read this thread before continuing: #SiteC

https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/1377319285425459201?s=20

Before continuing I want to say that I am disturbed that @SFU, my alma mater (@sfuCMNS), houses Clean Energy Canada under @SFUDialogue / Shauna Sylvester. CEC has done nothing but produce false, greenwashing cover for industry, incl #SiteC. Nuclear & Big Hydro are not "clean."

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue You would think if you were a group called "Clean Energy Canada" you'd also be touting energy efficiency & conservation - by far the cheapest, cleanest, most ecological source available, easily equal to #SiteC. BC & BC Hydro have barely scratched the surface of it.
But crickets.

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue That is, there are enough energy savings in electricity conservation in BC that it would equal the megawatts that #SiteC would produce (if the dam is ever able to function, which is debatable). Further we can add that same amount again by taking back our Columbia R entitlement..

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue And again #bcpoli doesn't need to build more electrical capacity (see thread in 2nd tweet). We need only manage peaks in load, with better, smarter grids & local generation.

This MOAR!! cry from industry needs to be stifled. It is, quite frankly, self-serving PR. #SiteC

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue BC currently (no pun) produces about 70 terawatts of electricity & can use only about 50 of those TW, and we export the rest at prices often lower than it costs to produce it. We have so much we're paying IPPs not to produce, & then spending $16-20bn on unneeded #SiteC on top.

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue Clean Energy Canada needs to knock off the MOAR! cry. What are its ties to nuclear & #BigHydro? We can't afford to destroy any more rivers & downstream ecosystems for energy we don't need.

It's like crying "MOAR housing supply!" without stemming speculative investment/AirBnB/&c

@SFU @sfuCMNS @SFUDialogue ..As for hydro being a climate solution, @cleanenergycan needs to update its science. Recent studies of reservoir emissions show hydropower's emissions can equal coal's - & not just in tropical latitudes, but here in the "frozen North" too: #SiteC #bcpoli drive.google.com/file/d/1eq7QMj…