VICTORIA — Word that the Waneta Expansion Project will go ahead is great news for residents of the Kootenays, providing many jobs and a boost to the local economy, but the B.C. Liberals made a bad deal for the long-term health of the region, say New Democrats.

News Release - April 22, 2010

News Release - Mar. 3, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberals are trying to sneak through a 29 per cent electricity rate hike, demanding B.C. Hydro deliver an extra $254 million to government in the next year alone, Opposition energy critic John Horgan said today.

News Release - January 15, 2010

VICTORIA - The B.C. Liberal government must take steps to ensure First Nations are adequately consulted before hydro transmission lines are erected on their traditional territory, say the Official Opposition.

The B.C. Transmission Corporation is considering a transmission line known as the Interior to Lower Mainland line, running from Merritt to Coquitlam. More than two dozen First Nations have made submissions to the B.C. Utility Commission noting that their concerns have not been adequately addressed.

News Release - August 26, 2009

VICTORIA- The B.C. Liberals' post-election energy policy reversal exposes their pre-election lie about energy self-sufficiency, says Opposition energy critic John Horgan.  "Before the election the Liberals told British Columbians that the reason we needed to pay outrageous prices for unreliable power was because we needed to be energy self sufficient," said Horgan. "Now they are trying to tell us that their ‘buy high sell low' policy will be good for taxpayers and BC Hydro."

‘If Campbell were serious about climate change, he'd stand by the moratorium," says Horgan

News Release - July 3, 2008

Opposition energy critic John Horgan says it is astounding that Gordon Campbell's new finance minister is continuing to promote offshore oil and gas exploration.

For Immediate Release
Jan. 25, 2008

VICTORIA - Gordon Campbell has billions of dollars for Vancouver transportation infrastructure, but he continues to abandon Cowichan Valley, Malahat and Capital Region commuters, says Opposition MLA John Horgan.

News Release - September 18, 2007

Opposition Environment Critic Shane Simpson today called on the Gordon Campbell government to endorse the recommendation made by the Kemess Mine Project Review Panel.

In a report released yesterday, the joint federal-provincial panel has ruled that the Northgate Minerals project application for the proposed Kemess North mine not be approved by the provincial and federal governments in order to protect the adjoining Amazay Lake.

April 30, 2007