Power-Hungry Homes Fit Bill for Grow Ops

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A rough estimate based on each city's share of B.C.'s population suggests there could be 2,500 high-consumption homes in Vancouver, 1,700 in Surrey and 900 in Burnaby.

"Is it going to be easy? No," he said. "Obviously that's going to mean we'll have to come up with some systematic approach to deal with those numbers. We're going to have to start whittling that list down."

until recently, BC Hydro, citing privacy legislation, would only release information on a home's electricity consumption to police or municipal inspectors if they already had an address under investigation.

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Power-Hungry Homes Fit Bill for Grow Ops

BC Hydro compiles list of 18,000

By Chad Skelton

VANCOUVER -- Nearly 18,000 homes in B.C. -- about the same number of residences as in all of West Vancouv...

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