Manitoba ‘repatriating’ some hydro exports from U.S. to power Canadian projects instead

Credit: CBC News Manitoba

Manitoba will cancel some hydroelectricity exports to the U.S. in an effort to power more homegrown projects, Premier Wab Kinew says.

Manitoba will let two of its hydroelectric agreements which exported power across the southern border expire, Kinew told reporters on Monday. The province is “repatriating” that power to invest in Canadian projects as trade tensions with the U.S. drag on, he said.

“We saw that there’s 500 [megawatts] of export contracts that are expiring at the end of the month, and so we’ve decided as Canadians and as Manitobans [that] we are going to use that power to build up our own economy here at home,” he said.