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Originally Posted by Acey
Thanks a lot for the info. I'm usually pretty good at Googling but somehow didn't find that first article.
That figure is far more than I thought, and also is coincidentally quite close to our current usage of 11,000. Yes, I do realize that harnessing all of that power would be massively expensive, environmentally destructive, equally silly to put all our eggs in the hydro basket, etc... but it is interesting to see it quanitifed.
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Talk of a dam on the north Saskatchewan river east of lloydminster has been ongoing for 40 years. The nimbys have delayed implementation to the point where the cost of land has made it impossible.