Hi Anthony, Those Quebec hydro stations are owned by the Quebec government. back when the stations were built the Quebec gov't was gearing up to separate from Canada and wasn't in the least looking to share with Canadians. From what I've been told the Quebec grid was developed in a North-South direction, and due to some other technical issues of phase and voltage it isn't feasible to send the power westward. Kim, if we stopped exporting clean power then we'd simply wind up inhaling even MORE of the second-hand smoke that drifts across the border from US-based coal-fired generating stations. Happy Trails, Greg Potts 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato www.pottsfamily.ca www.busesofthecorn.com
On 28-Jun-07, at 1:52 PM, Anthony Egeln wrote: > Is it possible that the Canadian power generating stations are at > least partially owned by Americans....or Brits or Dutch for that > matter? Just because the plant is in Canada doesn't mean that its > ownership is completely Canadian. > > It seems to me that the very important trade between Canada and the > U.S. goes both ways to the benefit of both Canadians and Americans! > > Anthony > '89 syncro GL (Hidalgo) > > KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote: If Canada were to stop > exporting its electricity to the US, then more of that electricity > could be used domestically to power electric vehicles. > > On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Greg Potts wrote: > >> We do >> have wind, hydro-electric and nuclear power generating here but since >> all of that output is already spoken for the reality is that an >> electric Vanagon in Toronto is in actuality fueled by coal burned in >> Nanticoke On, or Ohio. > |
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