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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
We do have a lot of potentual cheap elictricity in B.C. We could double our production of hydro-electric power on the existing damned river systems without even looking at untouched water supplies.
We don't in part because of enviromentalist( it wouldn't matter how safe it was for the enviroment) and in part because of the profitability. If the U.S. has to build coal generating plants and reactors to top up their need for electricity the price will reflect their high cost of production. We(B.C.) get to sell our electricity for more.
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It seems to me that if Quebec's long term strategy is to use our equalization payments to build their huge hydro-electric system to sell power to New York, that B.C. should be doing the same by selling into the huge California market.
Maybe at some time in the future, as you say, when Californians want their power a little cheaper and less environmentally damaging, and the environmentalists start to see the light, it will happen. The people in B.C. seem to be too polarized in their thinking - either too far to the right (clearcut logging) or too far to the left (save the water).