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Andrew Radzik, spokesperson for the B.C. Wilderness Committee, speaks with Jordan Poppenk about a dramatic rejection of B.C.’s province’s energy plan by the province’s Utilities Commission. The province had submitted a bid to expand the province’s hydro electricity in an enormous – and controversial – run-of-river hydro project, which would have added private dams to a great number of the province’s watersheds. The quasi-judicial B.C. Utilities Commission rejected that bid, claiming there was no need for new generation capacity, and ruled that the province had not made adequate plans for conserving power.

You can see the complete episode here: TGM #148: Conservation or renweables? (July 31, 2009)