This blog is a means of making some small contribution towards raising awareness regarding causes, protests, or activities I feel are meaningful. Hopefully a few new hands and voices will be funneled towards these causes as a result. Being an enabler in helping people find meaningful problems and the steps they can take to solve them seems like a good starting place.
First off, I thought I would bring up buteinlet.net and the recent moratorium on river diversion energy generation projects in British Columbia. The moratorium puts a temporary halt to any further private sector hydroelectric developments involving potentially hundreds of small rivers throughout the mainland. These developments are ostensibly "green" alternatives to fossil fuel consumption, but seem to be of debatable long term benefit to British Colombians themselves, both from a financial and environmental viewpoint. The moratorium coincided with a rally I attended on the 4th and buys British Colombians some time to raise further awareness of the issues and solicit change from their elected representatives.
Here is a summary of the benefits of a public operated power system, of the type that has been partially dismanteled over the last few years in BC.
http://hydrofactsbc.ca/why-a-public-electricity-system-mainmenu-26
And here is a link to an article on the moratorium itself.
http://www.buteinlet.net/node/99
You can take action by signing the following online citizen's appeal and by donating to the Citizen's for Public Power.
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing". Thank you, Mr. Burke.
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