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Auteur	Canadian Nuclear Association
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Classificatie	3.02.9.90/03 (CANADA - REACTOREN)
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The Power Of Choice

Of necessity and by choice, Canadians are the world's most prodigious producers 
and consumers of energy.
We need it in order to live with a capricious climate. We need it to move our people 
and the products of our labour over vast distances. We need it to grow and share our 
food, among ourselves and with others. We need it - yes - to hew wood and draw 
water, but also to harvest nature's ancient earthbound resources and fashion them 
to man's space-age requirements.
Energy is more than the muscle of Canada's industry and enterprise. It is the fibre 
of efficiency, ingenuity, convenience and leisure. It is everywhere, from brawny 
Bessemer furnaces to the potent precision of a laser beam; from the chain-saw 
tumult of a timber plot to the cool purr of a supercomputer; from a trundling 
phalanx of prairie combine harvesters to the hum of a microwave oven.
Canada's robust economy and its enviable standard of living are inextricably bound 
to its high world standing as an energy producer. The abundance and diversity of 
our energy resources have been rivalled only by our own resourcefulness in 
moulding them to our benefit.
But a profusion of resources is not a sanction for extravagance. As our energy 
needs grow, so does our need to find new and wiser ways to meet them. We must 
mix and match our choices so as to maintain our versatility, and preserve and 
improve our way of life.
For the past century, Canada has had three main energy options: oil, gas and 
electricity. Of these, electricity has become by far the most vital.

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