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Originally Posted by Azure
Proper water management is extremely important to protect our way of life and quite frankly our food.
And proper water management is impossible to do without hydro dams to build up reservoirs, feed canals, irrigation systems, recharge aquifers, etc.
The fact that you can get power generation on a big scale makes it a big win all around.
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I really think we should be using the royalties from paid out oil sands projects to build government owned hydro. Manitoba built a huge dam for ~$8B according to someone above. There are sites along the Peace/Athabasca in Alberta that are suitable for large scale hydro, and if we added a couple of them as "Alberta Hydro" we'd add a huge amount of reliability to our grid. I also think we'd have a decent chance of getting some sort of transition funding from the feds.