Energy Action Timeline

Posted March 26, 2009 - 05:54 by webmaster
Year Action
2009
  • Create new Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change and a new BC Energy Authority
  • Design elected Regional Resource Management Boards
  • Implement a Feed-in Tariff incentive program
  • Halt all river-based hydro projects pending stricter environmental assessment process
  • Halt the import of energy from fossil fuel-based generation systems
  • Ban cosmetic gas fireplaces from new developments
2012
  • Smart metering fully implemented
  • Methane capture on landfills and wastewater treatment plants
2015
  • Decommissioning of all natural gas and diesel power stations
2016
  • All new public buildings net GHG zero and energy self- sufficient
2020
  • All new housing net GHG zero
  • Ban on bio-fuels not derived exclusively from waste sources that would otherwise release GHGs
  • Halt coal mining and export industry for energy generation
  • Halt oil and gas mining and export industry for energy generation
2030
  • Vancouver Island is energy self sufficient
  • Gasoline powered vehicles phased out
2100
  • Decommission Peace, Columbia, Kootenay, Nechako and other river-based generation systems
  • BC is fully powered by clean and green energy.

“Eighty-five per cent of BC’s electrical power supply stems from hydro-based generation systems. It is imperative that we diversify our generation systems so that we are not reliant on any single method for our electricity needs – especially if global warming cannot be halted and our water supply dwindles. We need to invest in geothermal, wind, ocean and solar methods of power production.”

- Heather Drugge
Energy Policy Analyst, Green Party