How might remote northern communities benefit from waterpower?
For First Nation and Métis communities, waterpower projects offer the potential for economic development in a number of ways: it reduces communities’ needs to generate power using diesel gas, which must be shipped in from elsewhere; it can increase their financial independence; and can help create local jobs.
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