Canadian power should be all hydroelectric, period.
If we stopped worrying about looking good and started worrying about actually being good, the first thing we'd do is build a bunch of ugly and boring but super effective dams in every single province and territory and make it so everyone could heat their homes in winter cheaply and without burning anything, and in the process we'd punch above our weight by selling a bunch of that carbon neutral power to the US.
If we stopped worrying about looking good and started worrying about actually being good, the first thing we'd do is build a bunch of ugly and boring but super effective dams in every single province and territory and make it so everyone could heat their homes in winter cheaply and without burning anything, and in the process we'd punch above our weight by selling a bunch of that carbon neutral power to the US.
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One thing that we have to universally understand and accept is that all forms of industrial scale electricity generation will have an environmental impact, but hydro dams can produce power for generations using the same site, on long enough timeline the environmental damage has already basically taken place, so the marginal impact for every new kilowatt generated becomes lower and lower. I think a lot of these people don't like it because you can't get rich building hydro dams. You can get rich selling technologies that are perpetually just out of reach at massive cost and very minimal positive impact.
I'd be totally willing to say "let's make Canada for Canadians and stop exporting everything we have like a colony". Canadians are some of the smartest people in the world, and instead of actually getting a chance to use that ingenuity, they're digging holes in the ground for Chinese people. If they're lucky.
I agree with you that we should be focusing on food self-sufficiency first and foremost (we are canada, we should have some of the lowest food prices in the world not some of the highest!), but it's also important for us to realize that energy is not a luxury. A lack of food can kill you in days or weeks, a lack of heat can kill you up here in hours. Especially when it's 40 below out for days or weeks on end. Inexpensive and reliable heat is a game changer for everyone.
I'd be totally willing to say "let's make Canada for Canadians and stop exporting everything we have like a colony". Canadians are some of the smartest people in the world, and instead of actually getting a chance to use that ingenuity, they're digging holes in the ground for Chinese people. If they're lucky.
I agree with you that we should be focusing on food self-sufficiency first and foremost (we are canada, we should have some of the lowest food prices in the world not some of the highest!), but it's also important for us to realize that energy is not a luxury. A lack of food can kill you in days or weeks, a lack of heat can kill you up here in hours. Especially when it's 40 below out for days or weeks on end. Inexpensive and reliable heat is a game changer for everyone.