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Originally Posted by lio45
Aren’t you guys the one and only Non-Quebec path for NL power? Just be as smart as your Quebec neighbors, and extort the Newfoundlanders, and you’ll get cheap hydro power too
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There's an NS-NL deal and undersea cable. I don't think it's extortionary but it's likely more expensive per kWh than the alternative universe where hydro resources in Canada are developed cooperatively and the end user rates only reflect differences in transmission fees instead of arbitrary political boundaries.
Another example I'd give is, say, the UAE. Collectively the world would be slightly better off if it could coordinate and share those resources, since it is worse overall to artificially flood the UAE with cash and promote otherwise unsustainable development there. In the UAE case there's no way for the world to coordinate, but in Canada there could have been.
(For a while in Canada the federal government's line was this was how it should work, but only for offshore resources. If there's hydro in Quebec that belongs to Quebec, if there's hydro in Labrador it sort of belongs to Quebec, and if there's oil off Newfoundland some of it belongs to Quebec.
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