Recent press coverage of the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his replacement with Delcy Rodríguez has been a case of fanciful explanations chasing very few facts. The administration has been of little help with its recent endorsement of Maduro’s second-in-command as the new leader of Venezuela.

British Columbia’s CleanBC program was initiated in 2018. It has spawned innumerable websites, reports, studies, and communiques. In February 2023, it was updated with the Roadmap to 2030 plan.

The Roadmap is plainly aspirational. It is, as it says, a roadmap. However, 60 percent of the way to the objective, it is unclear whether real progress is present.

The anomalous energy sources in s. 8(a) does not include solar and wind which have no fuel. In thecase of “geothermal heat” and “kinetic movement of flowing water,” this is a strange construction ofwords that attempts to define the “fuel” for geothermal and hydroelectricity. However, they are notcommodities since they are not traded, transportable, and relatively difficult to measure.
Press coverage has taken a number of approaches to handling the odd terminology. The mostcommon has been to simply assume that the terms are simply meaningless and substitute logicalalternatives. This is defensible given the president’s lack of background in energy, but falls afoul ofthe standards of legal interpretation which argue against an interpretation that makes some of thetext irrelevant.