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[Turbineguy]

1. I had this explained to me in High School economics.

It's why you want utilities owned by the public.

[captain queeg]

2. Sounds like Enron gaming the system.

[applegrove]

3. Alberta is filled with right wingers. If this was going to start happening in Canada,

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Alberta would be where it would happen.

[CanonRay]

4. Another libertarian paradise.

[localroger]

5. I've occasionally seen Alberta described as Canada's Texas /nt

[applegrove]

6. Yup.

[canuckledragger]

7. But but but, they're supposed to be so independent...

...that they keep throwing tantrums and whine about leaving Canada for their own country.

Isn't energy independence supposed to be part of that? And they claim to be oil gods as well, so why the blackouts? (Other than greed of course)

[applegrove]

8. 2 Natural Gas Plants are offline. That seems like bad planning at the very least.

[canuckledragger]

9. It's why because of greed-based stunts like this...

...that purposely endanger people for profit, I'm a huge fan of decentralized heat/power generation, from renewables and otherwise.

You won't suffer for someone else's greed when you don't have to rely on them for anything.

[applegrove]

10. As It Happens, CBC Radio, is about to do a story on it so we will

find out soon if they in fact did game the system to make more money. They sent out an alert asking people to stop using power so it is looking like it may have been a legit issue. People complied.