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Dear Editor:

The Davis Plan to dercgulate
B.C. Hydro, which was adopted
by the Socred caucus when it met
in Prince George recently with
Premier Bill Vander Zalm, would
constitute a major sellout of B.C.
Hyde resources to private cor-
porate interests and the United
States,

The proposal to allow private
interests to develop hydro sites all
over B.C. to get cheap power and
to export to the U.S. would mean
the end of any rational planned
over-all energy policy for B.C.
which is possible only under public
ownership.

Under the plan announced by

Davis, the public will pay for the
transmission system and = provide
low cost transmission costs to the
private companies. At the same
time those companies would be ex-
empt from having to pay anything
toward paying off the huge B.C.
Hydro debt. The public will be
saddled with paying off that debt
through increased hydro rates.

The Davis-Vander Zalm plan
goes much further than Bik Ben-
nett ever did. Bennett abandoned
the policy of generating hydro for
B.C. use only, and replaced it with
a policy of large-scale exports.

This latest: scheme would turn
over the resource to private inter-
esis as well as step up exports to

the US. [te would threaten BoC. s
dwindling agricultural dand, our
fisheries and ecology,

Allin all, the Davis Plan is a
very bad deal for B.C. Lt should be
ejected outright. B.C. Hydro has
not been a@ model public utility, but

7 ~ Wednesday, November 19, 1986 - Sorth Shore News

3.C. Hydro should be reformed |

abandoning public ownership of
hydro to the protit-seeking private
sector would be much worse,

H.C. Hydro shoultt be reformed
bat not abolished.
Maurice Rush
B.C. Leader, Communist Party

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