Key BC Liberal insiders hired by private power developers ince the Campbell government 2005 BC Liberal provincial campaigns - tions manager, moved to a directorship tions, is now a VP at Cloudworks Energy. gave the green light to private has consulted for Alcan, Accenture and with Plutonic Power/GE. Michael Margolick, held positions in S power developers like the Pluton- now Plutonic Power. Alleged to have Mark Grant, former executive director resource and strategic planning at BC ic Power/General Electric partnership, worked for both CN and BC Rail as BC of the BC Liberal Party now with Rupert Hydro, now is the Vice President of there has been a virtual revolving door in Rail was being sold to CN. Peace Power. Power and Transmission planning at Victoria, as key government officials and David Cyr, former Assistant to BC Lib- Bruce Young, has held several high pro- Naikun Wind. senior BC Liberal political advisers have eral Minister Mike de Jong, now a direc- file positions with the BC Liberal party Robert Price, after a 30-year career at moved from government to lucrative tor at Plutonic Power/GE. and lobbied his own party on behalf of BC Hydro and Power Authority which positions in the private power industry. Robert Poore, recently worked under Katabatic Power is listed as a director of culminated as the utility’s Vancouver While such individuals are not subject the Provincial Revenue Minister of the Atla Energy. Island transmission line construction, to British Columbia’s ethics laws, which Province of BC, now a senior director at Stephen Kukucha, former senior policy supervision and operations manager, prohibit cabinet ministers and some Plutonic Power/GE. advisor for the BC Ministry of Environ- now a member of the Hawkeye ‘team’. senior staff from lobbying government Tom Syer, former deputy chief of staff ment, is now president and CEO of Atla Mr. Paul Adams, after a 33-year career in the areas governed by their former to Gordon Campbell, now a director at Energy. with BC Hydro in which he held senior ministries, the sheer number of former Plutonic Power/GE. Bob Herath, former Assistant Regional management positions, now is another government staffers now working in the Bill Irwin, after holding key positions Water Manager for the BC Ministry of ‘team’ member at Hawkeye. private power industry is shocking. in the BC Ministries of Land and Water, Environment, now with Syntaris Power. Ron Monk, former BC Hydro Engineer, In addition to the hiring of so many key and Crown Lands, now a director at Plu- Paul Taylor, former President and CEO now employed by Kerr Wood Leidal government insiders, the private power tonic Power/GE. of ICBC as well as high level positions engineering firm used by IPPs. industry has provided massive financial Doug Bishop, formerly 32 years with in the BC Government, is now President Wayne Chambers, a former BC Hydro donations to the BC Liberal party both BC Hydro and Powerex, now with Plu- and CEO of Naikun Wind Energy Group. power plant and substation operator, before and after Premier Gordon Camp- tonic Power/GE. Michael J. O’Conner, former Presi- now a manager at Cloudworks. bell decided to allow private power Bruce Ripley spent the last 2 of his 16 dent and CEO of Crown Corporation Alexander Kiess, after long career with access to BC rivers. years at BC Hydro as VP Engineering, BC Transit, now holds senior positions BC Hydro in management, now works Here is a list of all the known former now President and COO of Plutonic at Naikun. as a consultant to Syntaris Power. bureaucratic and political staffers now on Power/GE. Jackie Hamilton, formerly held various Geoff Plant, former BC Liberal Attor- the payrolls of the private power industry. Elisha McCallum (Moreno), after 7 BC Government environmental assess- ney General, now chair of Renaissance Patrick Kinsella, Co-chair of 2001 and years with BC Hydro as a media rela- ment and regulatory management posi- Power. A biologist’s view www.SaveOurRivers.ca Save Our Rivers Society is a non-profit Order of Canada in 2000. am a biologist fortunate enough on it now asking only that the Fish- organization dedicated to preserving our Rex Weyler is a journalist, author, and to have spent the past 26 years eries Act be applied fair and square water resources from private ownership ecologist – and one of the founding in the wilderness. There I have on the Norwegian Salmon feedlots I and exploatation behind the back of their members of Greenpeace International. felt the pulse of the living systems as it is applied to the rest of us and rightful owners - the citizens of British Weyler’s work has appeared in books, that bring us clean air, water and in arrogance and disconnect Camp- Columbia. Our Board of Advisors, fea- magazines, and newspapers including food. I know now that if you are bell has not even acknowledged our tures a range of luminaries in such fields the New York Times, Rolling Stone and breathing in BC you have drawn air concern. such as ecology, biology, law, economics, National Geographic. into your lungs that was produced We are only asking that the laws of journalism. Their insights and passion Alexandra Morton is a biologist by a salmon-fed tree. Wild salmon this land be observed... That there is inspire and empower Save Our Rivers in renown for her fight against fish farm- are our bloodstream. The connec- no answer, speaks volumes. the battle to protect BC’s watersheds and ing. Morton’s work has been published tion between people and the wild public energy system. in such esteemed scientific journals as things is that close. Alexandra Morton is a biologist who These are just a few of them: Science, and she has been featured in Today’s Liberal Government in BC has courageously taken on the fish Naomi Klein is a world-renown Cana- news publications around the world, is severing that connection, cauter- farm industry and governments. Her dian journalist and bestselling author of including the New York Times. izing the rivers and metastasizing many published scientific accounts The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disas- Dr. John Calvert teaches economics and salmon feedlots on our wild salmon of the death of and damage to Pink ter Capitalism and her 2000 internation- public policy at Simon Fraser University. arteries. I use these human medicine and Chum salmon smolts by sea lice al bestseller No Logo. He is a leading expert on issues respect- terms to try and warn you that sys- from adjacent fish farms, has shown Dr. William E. Rees is the creator of ing public power and the Campbell gov- tems you don’t pay for can be even beyond doubt, despite all the indus- the “eco-footprint” concept and one the ernment’s disastrous Energy Policy. more essential to your well-being try and government propaganda world’s foremost ecological and sustain- Dr. Craig Orr has been a professional than the ones you purchase. We efforts, that fish farms are ruinous ability experts. ecologist for more than 30 years and have become numb to the political to our native wild salmon. Morton’s Hereditary Chief Alfred Scow, C.M., leads Watershed Watch Salmon Society. shut down of our life support sys- work has been published in such was the first Aboriginal person in BC Craig also currently serves as Chair of tems, even though we would never esteemed scientific journals as Sci- to graduate from law school (UBC), to the Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus, allow this to a patient in a hospital. ence, and she has been featured in become a member of the Bar, and to be Science Coordinator of the Coastal Alli- Every week I send Gordon Camp- news publications around the world, appointed to the Bench. He received an ance for Aquaculture Reform, and as an bell a letter with 13,000 signatures including the New York Times. Honourary Doctor of Law degree from environmental advisor to Kwikwetlem UBC in 1997 and was appointed to the First Nation. 26www.SaveOurRivers.ca . MAY Registered 2009 under the BC Election Act (866) 392-7458.