Tell Michael we want more of this kind of reporting: Power company accuses NDP of trespassing. We do not want anyone to see what is happening to BC rivers and if anyone tries to have a look Michael can stir the corporations and they can use the regulators they created to close all of the hundreds of sites to the public. After all the watersheds (rivers) will be private anyway. Please see the Google Earth map on hydrofactsbc.ca and you will see the number of rivers, the land tenures and the owners until recent changes protected the owners' names.

Dam the public, right Mr. Smyth! What could they possibly know? After all you and the mainstream media and the provincial government are lying to them and/or not informing them. The Province ran a full page ad for the current government at the last election assuring, perhaps as I recall guaranteeing that a vote for the corporations (Liberal Party of BC) was the right choice.

Now in Mr Smyth's Canada Day Province he is either knowingly lying or repeating misinformation without fact checking. Note to CanWest: bonus to Mr Smyth.

I was with Shane Simpson the MLA and environment critic and we had a lot of cameras when we visited the Ashlu River private power workings. Thank goodness Mr. Simpson was with us because the bullies at the site backed down when they saw the MLA's ID after they blocked the public forest service road with their trucks  Mr. Smyth and the Province expect readers to believe nonsense.  Mr. Simpson did not go near the Ashlu River tunnel portal and Mr. Lyons, Mr. Smyth's source, whoever he is was not there either. I didn't see anyone complaining the week earlier when Barry Penner (BC Min if Enviro) walked out of the huge tunnel wearing tennis shoes. He was very comfortable with the Ledcor staff at the site because he spent a lot of time during the last election with them.

The Ashlu private power project which by the way is not owned by Ledcor, is not approved by the people. The public decided it should be kept for future generations. When Ledcor, who was the original applicant for the power project, didn't like the public's decision they had their Maui buddy, Gordon Campbell, the Premier make a law giving Ledcor the Ashlu and clearing an unobstructed path to hundreds of rivers. Campbell has his wife set up as the high school principal in Squamish where one third of the first round of these rivers are located. Campbell had used his power earlier in his term to keep secrets from the public as the public's electric energy and the source of their collective wealth is and was being stolen. A Canadian government cannot do what this government is doing and get away with it. The Ashlu River zoning application denial was the point where Gordon Campbell changed a law to silence the public and close the books and started running for the door with our rivers and our publicly owned electric utility.