Major projects are questionable investments because of environmental, economic and social impacts.
Major projects have well documented impacts environmentally. This is an economic concern for other industries such as forestry and fisheries.
One of the massive projects that has been floating around for the last 25 years is in the Nisga'a territority where hundreds of people will be directly impacted.
I guess what I'm saying is that small scale hydro generation could be a far better way to remove oil dependence as it is far more efficient from a transmission perspective.
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