News Summary

• Energy demand is surging across North America and unexploited hydro sites are limited.
• If key Canadian provinces don’t restructure their supply, this country risks medium-term socio-economic decline and, ultimately, continental irrelevance.
• The best way to tackle the coming shortfall is to expand the use of high energy-density natural gas and nuclear.
• By contrast, adding more wind and solar, which is the objective of most current policies, would disastrously worsen the problems of intermittency and unreliability.