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Long-Ago Decision: Tides Canada and Bomb Threat

long-ago decision: Quebec continues to boast North America's lowest electricity prices, was last year's business-as-usual update in one trade publication, according to National Observer. With climate crisis looming, that long-ago decision earns even more envy. It's hydropower, and specifically the mammoth dam system in Northern Quebec that has been paying dividends since it was first built in the 70s. Not only do they pay less, but Quebeckers also emit the least carbon per capita of any province. What people are reading Good news for climate change India gets out of coal Downstream of oilsands, death by cancer comes too often Bomb threat called into Tides Canada an extension of political theatre It's a shell game, said one angry blog post by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. It may surprise most Canadians, then, to hear how most of New England has reacted to the idea of being able to buy permanently into Quebec's power grid. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.