Legal news and trends for Canadian in-house counsel and c-suite executives
Issue link: https://digital.canadianlawyermag.com/i/50886
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell along with First Nations members at a project-blessing ceremony. Working with First Nations is a reality of doing business in B.C. of-the-river hydro generation, wind turbines, and biomass. Companies were so eager that proposals more than tripled the amount of power the utility is asking for BC Hydro called for 5,000-gigawatt hours of power, proposals came in for 17,000-gigawatt hours. "There's no place in Canada that has the green power op- portunities like British Columbia," says Gene Vickers of the group B.C. Citizens for Green Energy, which has been pushing the government to tap the province's vast potential for tidal, geothermal, wind, and small- scale hydro power. One company jumping on the green-power bandwagon is a former casino operation based in Lithuania. After leaving the gaming industry following a dispute with a business partner, Creation Casinos Inc. was looking for new investments. The search took it to British Columbia, where it has since purchased and morphed into Orca Power Corp. As a result, it's doing pre- liminary work to develop tidal power resources in the province. It had planned to submit a 15-megawatt bid to the BC Hydro clean-power call, a project the company has since put on hold due to the death of its chief operating officer, Anthony Duggle- by, in October. "I think many people see a potential here that there is a re- source, and they're trying to capitalize on it," says Linas Anta- navicius, Orca Power's corporate counsel. "Another thing is that in British Columbia, so far, there's not much electricity that's produced by independents." Since taking over Orca Power, the company has expanded its portfolio to include Katabatic Power Corp., which has two fairly advanced wind projects in development near Prince Don't miss the following conferences presented by MAJOR BUSINESS AGREEMENTS March 2 - 3 | Vancouver David Zacks, Q.C., Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Robert R. Shouldice, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS 9th Annual MID-MARKET PROGRAM CHAIR MARCH MADNESS March 17 - 18 | Atlanta Ira Moreland, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. DUTY TO ACCOMMODATE March 2 | Calgary March 5 | Edmonton PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS L. Frank Molnar, Field LLP (Cal) Geoff Hope, Field LLP (Edm) PROCESS DRUG TESTING PROGRAM CHAIR Randy Leavitt Ph.D. Maxxam Analytics TECHNOLOGIES March 3 | Calgary March 4 | Edmonton FAIRNESS March 30 - 31 | Ottawa Michele A. Pineau, Public Service Labour, Relations Board Josée Turcotte, Ontario Securities Commission PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Media Partner ENROLL TODAY! 1 888 777-1707 | www.insightinfo.com/InHouseCounsel 20 • FEBRUARY 2009 Untitled-1 1 INHOUSE 12/19/08 9:55:51 AM