Vaughn Palmer: Ratepayers 'zapped' by Hydro report that reveals shocking interference

VICTORIA — Massive political interference by the B.C. Liberals in B.C. Hydro. Hydro’s estimates of its own electricity needs and the way it could obtain power manipulated by direct orders from the cabinet table.
The independent B.C. Utilities Commission restricted in its ability to vet Hydro’s electricity needs and the prices it would be paying.
Hydro bullied into buying private power that it didn’t need, at premium prices, locked in for decades.
Hydro ordered, as we