And where would that electrical power come from that goes to Alasa. Abracadabra, wave the magic wand, TaDaaaaa - Alcan!!! Now I am surprised.

they will divert it from us of course...and raise our costs to satify them...

It was my understanding the Alaskan panhandle were operating undercapacity - they had excess power available with no where to send it - another reason for the Bradfield Canal Road - to allow a route for power lines - besides the road to export NW BC's resources through an Alaskan port leaving places like Stewart still in the down cycle of the boom and bust economy besides exporting many BC jobs.
Didn't places like Stewart, Smithers and Terrace etc. pay a heavy price with the Snip mine/Wrangell experience?
Ask the people who live and work up here -
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/3544/3/b.c.%20and%20alaska%20talking%20power

Bennett sounds like a mouth piece for Alcan.

Cheers

If you are confused now.... Alaska named the examination of a potential interconnect the Alaska-Canadian Intertie Project (Al-Can Intertie for brevity), perhaps that is the source of confustion. The link need not necessarily be up farther north, but perhaps could be linked via submarine cable between Prince Rupert and Ketchikan.

Actually, Alaska is interested in exploring the possibility of selling BC, Alberta or anywhere connected to the North American power grid its relatively abundant, but to this point isolated energy resources. The benefits of such a link would help bring relatively lower cost energy to many Alaska First Nation communities, which are now paying up to 50 cents U.S. per Kwh.

Some might ask why not link between Stewart and Alaska, where there is already a link. The problem is in Alaska, the Misty Fjords National Monument, precludes a linkage without an act of the U.S. Congress. Such an act is highly unlikely, given the wilderness sentiments in the U.S.

The Alaska Panhandle, much like the Northcoast has an abundance of renewable, sustainable, energy resources. Among them are tidal power, wind generation, geothermal and environmentally benign alpine lake hydro (no anadromous species impeding dams).

A power corridor linkage farther north brings numerous benefits to the proposed Highway 37 corridor linkage. First, linking to Alaska's generation sources brings a physical stability to long AC hydro lines. Second, it assures that there will be energy flowing through the line, ensuring a payback on the proposed Highway 37 investment. A third benefit, is that Alaska's generation is approximate to where much of the energy would be consumed, thereby helping provide energy to BC which already imports somewhere near 10 percent of the energy it consumes.

Cooperation with Alaska can bring numerous benefits to BC producing a win-win circumstance. Perhaps much like the mutual benefits that are derived between the southern part of BC and Washington state.

Alaska is examining the link, you can find more details at the following web site:

http://www.aidea.org/aea/AlcanProjectPage.html