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On 10/10/24 21:28, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:32:03 -0400, bad sector wrote:
> 
>> Since electricity was nationalised in Quebec it's being offered at cost
>> plus profit, the total for domestic consumption is 1/6 or 1/8 of the
>> rate in Arizona (I forget the exact ratio) while shaving enough off to
>> finance development. We do have hydro resources but even if we were
>> generating with fuel the ratio would still be rather embare-assing.
>> That's what I mean by vital infrastructures.
> 
> It was ill conceived and there were other problems but Hydro-Quebec was
> the nail in the Maine Yankee nuclear plant's coffin. It was one of the
> casualties of the energy deregulation fiasco of the late '90s as cheap
> power flooded the New England states.
> 
> I don't know if deregulation achieved lower energy prices for the New
> England consumers. In this state it allowed the power company to sell its
> generating capacity to an out of state company and use the money to
> reinvent itself as an internet company -- just in time to go bankrupt in
> the dotcom bust.
> 
> So much for wise government policy.

Most governments have too many things ass-backwards but in Quebec 
Hydro-Quebec was IMO the most overdue cleanup that Rene Levesque 
accomplished and most Quebecers think so regardless of political 
partisanry. If he hadn't done it I would since then have paid about a 
quarter of a million MORE for my electricity over 50 years (to be 
compounded of course). There are no ifs or buts, vital infrastructure 
must be free of sticky paws and there's more than a little space in 
there for OSes as well as fossware.