Showing posts with label Marc Elieson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marc Elieson. Show all posts

Monday, November 10, 2014

A Government Corrupted



There's no trace of hyperbole in denouncing Stephen Harper as the Great Corrupter.  He is corrupt and he corrupts whatever he touches whenever and however it suits him.

The proof is pretty much everywhere but a shining example is the National Energy Board.   Take it from Marc Elieson, an energy executive and former CEO of BC Hydro.

Marc Eliesen  ...has quit his role as an intervenor in the federal review of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project, calling the National Energy Board "a truly captured regulator."

Eliesen has worked in the nation's energy sector for 40 years. In addition to running the nation's largest hydro utilities, he served in a variety of senior positions in both federal and provincial governments of all stripes, including as Ontario's deputy minister of energy.

Now retired and living in Whistler, B.C., the 73-year-old Eliesen resigned from his intervenor responsibilities after the board repeatedly demonstrated what he called a "lack of respect for hearing participants," as well as a disregard for "the standards and practices of natural justice that previous boards have respected."

Today's National Energy Board is bent.  It's a stacked deck, utterly corrupt.  It more closely resembles the courts that tyrants like to establish to do their dirty business.  It makes ruling after ruling barring relevant evidence and excluding unwelcome participation.   It sees only what it wants to see, it hears only what suits its predisposition.  

Let's put it this way: you don't go to these lengths to cheat if you have any chance of winning fairly.  A national regulator should not be a den of skulduggery, a rubber stamp of perfidy.

Why on Earth then should British Columbians accept the perverse rulings of this "truly captured" regulator or its soiled process?  Why should we take it as anything less than an admission that we're being set up so that out-of-province interests can have their way with our coast?

Read Mr. Elieson's letter of resignation.