Canada needs electrical infrastructure as much as it needs pipelines.
We have the same wind belt and it's only through old fashioned thinking that Saskatchewan isn't getting on with renewables like Alberta. Energy self-reliance is key.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/wind-energy-experts-see-lower-costs-bigger-turbines-on-the-horizon/
Bigger swept area really drives the returns on turbines. Plus, the monster ones don't have to turn nearly as fast to do an equivalent amount of work, so the danger to birds and bats is reduced further. Not like wind farms will ever come close to domestic cats in terms bird mortality (over four orders of magnitude) but it shoots down yet another objection from the haters.
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