By Garance Burke and Jason Dearen, Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 2011

Clean energy got a boost from a 2006 California law mandating it. But some clean energy projects are so expensive, they'll raise consumers' utility bills for decades.

By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, October 21, 2011

Energy-trading arm claims clean-energy exemption for U.S. power supplier is discriminatory

By Joyce Nelson, CCPA Monitor, April 2011

ENBRIDGE PIPELINE PLOT THICKENS

Most tar sands oil from pipeline is destined for U.S. ports

By John Holland and Adam Weintraub, The Associated Press, The Modesto Bee, April 12, 2011

Big hydro projects not included as renewable sources

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill affirming the state's goal of getting at least a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

News Release, CA Governor Brown, April 12, 2011

MILPITAS– Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today signed SBX1 2, which requires one-third of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources. The legislation increases California’s current 20 percent renewables portfolio standard target in 2010 to a 33 percent renewables portfolio standard by December 31, 2020.

Arthur Caldicott, February 25, 2011

Energy legislation in California can break the BC government's hope of positioning BC as a major renewable electricity supplier to the state. Specifically, the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) defines certain attributes of generation facilities which effectively eliminate most of BC's generation projects.

By DEBRA KAHN of Greenwire, New York Times, January 5, 2011

Citing alleged health effects from electromagnetic waves, a county in the North San Francisco Bay Area has criminalized the installation of "smart" electric meters.

Geoff Dembicki, TheTyee, December 7, 2010

How Alberta, Ottawa and oil sands corporations are teaming to oppose climate change laws across America. First in a multi-part series.

By Evan Halper, Marc Lifsher and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, September 2, 2010

Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.

Laura Bassett, Huffington Post, September 2, 2010

Proposition 23, the so-called "California Jobs Initiative" threatening to suspend some of California's unprecedented clean air and renewable energy legislation, is raking in millions of dollars from Texas oil companies and special interest groups in the Midwest that stand to profit from rolled-back environmental regulation.

by Peter Seidman, Pacific Sun, Marin County, August 20, 2010

PG&E's not-so-smart approach to wireless power grid a shocking lesson in 'advanced' planning

When Pacific Gas and Electric Company stuck its finger in the smart meter socket it got a shock.

Chuck DeVore, California State Assemblyman, chuckdevore.com, August 14, 2010

California and the International Green Energy Racket

Rebecca Lindall, Globe and Mail, July 29, 2010

David Parkins for the Globe and Mail

Will the Clean Energy Act clear the way for British Columbia to become a significant exporter of clean energy?

Sean Holman, Public Eye, July 13, 2010

A former California assemblyman who spearheaded an effort to increase the use of green energy has said he doesn't think it's likely his state will count British Columbia's run-of-the-river power as renewable.

By Sean Holman, TheTyee.ca, July 8, 2010

Lobbying effort to get 'renewable energy' approval from state's politicians came up empty.

David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2010

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unsuccessful, $46 million attempt to pass Proposition 16 on Tuesday failed to persuade the company's own customers.

MIKE LEE, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 11, 2010

Sea-cooling ban to cause retrofits or retirement for energy stations

By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee, May. 3, 2010

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdrew his support Monday for a controversial new offshore oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast in the wake of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Editorial, Mercury News (San Jose, CA), April 27, 2010

MIRO CERNETIG, Vancouver Sun, April 19, 2010

Premier Gordon Campbell will announce the construction of the massive Site C dam today, a plan not just to erect a $6-billion hydro dam but also make British Columbia self-sufficient in energy and create a multibillion-dollar green-power export industry.

By SCOTT SIMPSON, Vancouver Sun, March 25, 2010

B.C. green power may not qualify for top rates given to renewable energy projects

British Columbia should not look to California to support its ambitions to develop a lucrative renewable electricity export industry, a U.S. power market expert said this week.

Terry Macalister, guardian.co.uk, 14 February 2010

• Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'
• Lobby group includes UK energy companies

Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2010

VANCOUVER — Powerex has struck a precedent-setting deal to deliver green electricity to a major California utility.

The five-year deal with Pacific Gas & Electric, which has 15 million customers, would see the BC Hydro electricity trading subsidiary annually deliver between 330 and 1,000 gigawatt hours of renewable power to PG&E.