Ignoring all political slants/aspects, I found this pretty interesting:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canad...T8FHe35Q%3D%3D
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The amount of hydro that is exported from BC, Manitoba Ontario and Quebec is about 60,000 GWh per year. This would replace the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Saskatchewan coal power production almost exactly. Canada would then look a lot like New Zealand in terms of renewable electricity self-sufficiency, at over 80%. It would deliver on Canada’s international carbon commitments nearly all by itself. Canada would rank in the top five countries in the world for low carbon electricity grids.
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I think a big problem is measuring all of this by emissions within the borders of each country. Our emissions related to exported electricity or hydrocarbons should be put on the shoulders of the consumers.
Just as how Chinese emissions should be on our shoulders because of all the cheap crap we buy from them, yet hold our noses at their human rights and environmental records. Those heavily polluted foreign cities are largely because of the consumption of western foreigners, and the "score" should be kept as such.