Public Terasen Hearings
Gov’t Won’t Order Public Terasen Hearings
Sep, 23 2005 - 3:50 PM
VICTORIA(CKNWAM980) - Energy Minister Richard Neufeld will not order expanded hearings into the proposed sale of Terasen gas.
The Opposition wants Neufeld to order the BC Utilities Commission to include public meetings as part of its review of the proposal, but Neufeld won’t do that. “We will see and they will monitor — the BC Utilities Commission — the amount of letters and e-mails that come in … and they’ll judge from that … whether there should be public hearings or not.”
Texas-based Kinder-Morgan wants to purchase Terasen for about $7-billion (Canadian). The current review process allows for written comments until Oct. 21. CKNW doesn’t help the citizens with any information or links, you can email commission.secretary@bcuc.com to register your views. I’ve started going through the comments submitted, and haven’t seen a positive one yet.