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Originally Posted by Table 5
Alberta added something like 184,000 people last year, and Canada added close to half a million. You can, and should, try to optimize consumption, but demand is only going to go up in this province and country. If you plan to keep growing the country at this pace, we're going to need more energy generation no matter how efficient we try to be.
I'm not sure it's as much of a hot potato as it used to be. I think slowly more people are coming around to seeing nuclear not only as a viable option for stable baseload energy, but in many ways, the best option in the long term. Governments around the world are backtracking on shutdowns, more new plants are being built and planned, and you're also seeing it starting to see it being embraced by more environmentalists (at least the more practical ones). Perhaps because I follow it, but I see considerably more pro-nuclear stories in the news these days than negative. I think we're coming around!
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+1,030,378 people in the first nine months, and over 430 000 in the final quarter. So, yeah, consumption is going to go up even if we all commit to conservation. Kind of a problem across the board in a lot of sectors.