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Optimism and opportunity prevail at BC clean energy association annual meeting

June 13, 2012

Vancouver, B.C. – One week after the release of BC Hydro’s drafts Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), an energized BC clean energy sector listened to more encouraging news from the provincial minister of energy. “I can’t tell you how exciting it is to look at what we’re facing right now,” Rich Coleman told a luncheon crowd at the annual meeting of the Clean Energy Association of British Columbia (CEBC) in downtown Vancouver.

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Engaged BC Treaty process vital component to clean energy development and First Nation future

February 08, 2012

It was 20 years ago that the B.C. First Nations Summit, the provincial government and Ottawa celebrated the beginning of the B.C. treaty process. Among all parties was a sense of optimism. The process would ‘establish a new relationship based on mutual trust, respect, and understanding — through political negotiations’. It would be an era of modern treaty-making and a new beginning of coexistence and cooperation with First Nations.

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