Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to the United States (www.cnn.com)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 14:35
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rImITywR@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 15:15 collapse

Canadian official

Doug Ford

Lmao

HikingVet@lemmy.ca on 13 Dec 15:21 next collapse

It’d be funny if it wasn’t true.

Omgpwnies@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 18:26 collapse

Yeah, Ontario is about 40% of Canada’s economy and it’s population, and also produces an absolute shitload of energy via hydro and nuclear that gets exported to the US. Given that DoFO is the premier of Ontario, and thus “in charge” of 40% of Canada, it’s something to take a little seriously even if he’s a complete moron.

Also, keep in mind that the US gets a fantastic deal on this energy because we tend to overproduce and it has to go somewhere or else we would be forced to spin down a bunch of baseload nuclear, which would cost a fortune to bring back online. There has been times where we’ve ‘sold’ it at a negative cost because it would be more expensive to produce less.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 13 Dec 16:36 collapse

Eh, could’ve been Rob. Count your blessings.

UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Dec 17:03 collapse

Could have a been quite a wild ride with that crack addict!

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 13 Dec 18:08 collapse

You know what, now that I think about it… 🤔😂