Why BC is rewriting energy rules to decide who gets power and who doesn’t (Business in Vancouver)

Ten years ago, one of the arguments against Site C dam was that BC would be spending billions for more power generation than it could possibly use. 

Industrial power demand had fallen, thanks to the shuttering of big energy users like pulp mills.

Now there is such a growing demand for industrial power in BC that Premier David Eby’s government is now having to ration it to select industries—namely mines and LNG—while shutting out or limiting other energy intensive industries like green hydrogen production, bitcoin mining and data centres.

And it is circumventing a lot of its own rules to get new power lines and generation to resource projects ...

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