Vancouver Sun: The magnitude of British Columbia`s energy boom is hard to gauge in a city like Vancouver, where job-growth statistics and billion-dollar announcements can get lost amid the glassy towers and bustle of urban daily life. But in the tiny village of Xa`xtsa, a six-and-a-half-hour drive from Vancouver at the north end of Harrison Lake, the boom has been a total game-changer.
The need for electricity in British Columbia could jump by 50 per cent in 20 years, without taking into account conservation,…