Clark's shakedown effort is reminiscent of the manner in which Quebec, nearly 50 years ago, used its geographic leverage to extort Newfoundland's Churchill Falls
hydro project into selling it electricity at an enormous discount.
Although a climate - resilient approach is factored
into the designs of
hydro projects, China is still likely to suffer from hydroelectric output decline, says Yang.
In the developing world, theft, family ties, tribal allegiances, tithing conspire to prohibit large scale energy
projects as the patronage: inserting
into leadership and technical skill roles of sons, daughters, cousins, aunts and uncles is too tempting and the incompetence of most of these relatives and obligate parasites leads to no re-investment in the maintenance for these large scale
projects an example of which is the
hydro electric
project near Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of Congo.