text: I have another suggestion: Stop playing politics with the 'green-washing' hucksters. Green energy (after a full life cycle analysis) is, in fact, not very green, generally it's very expensive and too often its promoters are tight-as-a-tick with friends in government.
  
  So bad is 'green' politics in B.C., we've actually made water run uphill. Consider this: In summer, we purchase peak energy from the western interconnect grid, often from Washington State using reservoir water that, in shoulder season, filled our reservoirs to capacity with water that gets released over our dams and is flowed south across the border. 
  
  In the spring and fall, when streams are running, IPPs supply energy to the B.C. grid (backing up our reservoirs) and charge us mini-bar prices for the power.. Then when summer returns we buy our released water back and make U.S. utilities rich. In B.C. gravity is no object: Water flows up hill. Utility politics in this country needs a royal commission.