Carbon credits offer cold comfort for Fraser Valley residents

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The powers that be at the B.C. Utilities Commission are apparently planning to crank Burrard Thermal in Port Moody up to full bore to supply us with electricity.

These geniuses have somehow concluded that spewing carbon dioxide and other junk into the atmosphere is superior to generating clean, emission-free electricity from wind turbines and small-river-flow electric power projects.

Go figure.

People living downwind of Burrard Thermal, particularly those living in Maple Ridge and the rest of the Fraser Valley, will undoubtedly take great comfort in knowing that carbon credits are going to be purchased as penance for all the garbage that a fully cranked Burrard Thermal will spew into the atmosphere and the Lower Mainland-Fraser Valley air shed.

I’m sure everyone is going to feel so much better knowing the damage being done by Burrard Thermal’s emissions here in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be offset by planting trees in some far off land.

What a joke.

We can only hope that Burrard Thermal blows up just like it did the last time they tried to squeeze more than a few watts of power out of it.

Kevin Lee
Vancouver

Tagged as: carbon credits, Carbon Dioxide, Green Energy

Posted on August 19, 2009 · in Canada