Re: 鈥淎ll those electric cars will need electricity,鈥� letter, April 17.
The writer expresses concern that there won鈥檛 be enough power available to charge the electric cars that we鈥檙e going to be driving. sa国际传媒 is awash in excess power.
The power from Site C will be surplus, except to give away to the fracked-methane extraction industry. sa国际传媒 Hydro pays independent power producers not to produce power. Once the slack is taken up, we will have huge renewable energy potential with wind, solar and geothermal. (sa国际传媒 is the only jurisdiction on the ring of fire that does not have any geothermal power production.)
As for site C, it is 1950s technology, and the insistence to go ahead with building it has driven the renewable industry out of the province. It boggles my mind how we can make so many bad decisions.
Vic Brice
Nanaimo
