Canada bet heavily on hydro as a means of cleaning up its carbon footprint; it is the third-largest hydroelectricity producer in the world. But with the climate becoming markedly drier in recent years, Canada’s utilities are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars to diversify their grids, in some cases leaning on power plants fueled by gas or coal to meet mushrooming demand.
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Mushrooming demand. What an odd choice of words.
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“To mushroom” seems to actually be a verb meaning “to increase rapidly”. I swear, in English every noun’s a verb.