Vernon Ruskin
President
Abc Management Systems Inc
Areas of Expertise:
Clean Energy, Coal, Demand Side Management, Energy Economics, Energy Storage, Hydropower, Innovation, Natural Gas, Power Sector, Regulation, Renewables, Transmission, WaterAdditional Areas of Expertise:
Columbia River Treaty
Vernon Ruskin (Vern)
Professional Qualifications: Ph.D. (University of London), M.Com. (University of Toronto), B.Sc. Director Planning Division for B.C. Electric, the predecessor company of BC Hydro, and directed Peace and Columbia River engineering. He started an engineering consulting company in 1970 in Vancouver, BC. He got a green card. He worked for Middle West Service Company and subcontracted for Zinder&Co., two specialist rate consultants; In 1974 he formed a consulting company in Bellingham WA with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco. Chicago. Atlanta Cincinnati. His clients included 31 US and Canadian utilities and pipelines **, He taught” Engineering Economics” at UBC for 14 yrs., He semi- retired and wrote an-ebook and articles on “Clean Energy Starvation in the Midst of Plenty”, and Columbia Treaty Option #4 for” Good Neighbors”
** Clients, BC Hydro, Washington Water Power, Saskatchewan Power Corp, West Kootenay Power Co, San Diego Gas and Electric, Con Edison, Portland General Electric, Metropolitans Utility District, Boston Gas, Providence Gas, Brooklyn Union, Lone Star Gas, Alagasco, Southern California Gas, Cascade Natural Gas, Mountain Fuel Supply Co, Inland Gas, Union Gas. Plains Western Gas, Lakeland Gas, Gaz Metro, Gaz du Quebec, Northern and Central Gas, Consumers Gas, Westcoast Transmission, Washington Nat Gas, Gt. Winnipeg Gas, Minnegasco, Peoples Gas, Trans Canada Pipelines Transmountain Pipelines.
Recent Comments by Vernon Ruskin
- "Also, the IHNC failures: In January 2008, Judge Duval placed responsibility for the floodwall collapses of the 17th Street and London Avenue Canals o"
Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights Need to Address Mineral Security - "The pandemic threatens America’s clean energy mineral supplies, waterways, and people. Eisenhower mandated that two independent engineers double-check"
Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights Need to Address Mineral Security - "President Obama should seize his current opportunity for better ENERGY AND CLIMATE for CALIFORNIA, which impacts the rest of the nation that depends u"
What is the State of Energy in the Union? - "ENERGY, WATER, FOOD, HEALTH AND MONEY ARE LINKED
Dear Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Whitfield,
Legislation on coal fu"
Obama’s EPA to Cost Americans Billions of Dollars and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs - ""
Obama’s EPA to Cost Americans Billions of Dollars and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs - "“LIKE PLAYING POKER? GET READY TO PAY A LOT MORE FOR POWER”,
The EPA proposes a well intended law to reduce carbon emissions, but forgets that hell"
Obama’s EPA to Cost Americans Billions of Dollars and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs - "
CLEAN ENERGY STARVATION IN THE MIDST OF PLE"
Hydropower: The Silent and Aging Renewable - "Prof. Richard Muller, University of California, is right: wherever oil and coal is used don’t overlook that air pollution from shale (and conventiona"
Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution? - "CALIFORNIANS ARE BEING CHEATED
California’s politicians neglect their opportunity to get water storage for droughts and save 12 bi"
Hydropower: The Silent and Aging Renewable