text: Yoh, remember that paper surplus of a few million dollars in the final months of the Dosanjh NDP administration.
  
  It was based on a pipe dream of collecting from California for providing power from the Burrard thermal generating station during the Made By Enron Power Crisis.
  
  California decided that BC Hydro PowerEx and TransAlta were part of Enron's fraud, and demanded US $ 3.2 billion in fines instead of paying. BC Hydro got away with paying a bargain US $750 million to make it go away, and was stuck with the bill for the 100s of millions of natural gas it burned to generate the power exported to California. Enron drove up natural gas spot prices by creating unnecessarily congestion in gas transmission lines.
  
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-hydro-transalta-owe-california-millions-us-judge-rules/article8944884/
  
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-utility-settles-energy-prices-dispute-with-california-from-2000/article13813512/