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I suspect if one checks, the smelter which produced the aluminum was in Quebec or British Columbia. …

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Yes. Smelting aluminum takes a lot of electricity and Canada has a lot of cheap hydroelectric power. My Canadian friend refers to his power company as “Hydro, as in “our hydro bill was up this month.” Around here we should say, “Our coal bill was up this month.”
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