We finally get a meeting between Putin and Viktor Khmarin, Chairman of the Management Board and General Director of Public Joint Stock Company RusHydro that allows us to learn more about the nature of Russia’s energy producers.
This huge country and its different, extreme climatic conditions are impressive and somehow also a little intimidating for a Westerner. Everything has gigantic dimensions. I have one question. I have to go into a lot of detail.
Russia still has centuries of work to do to urbanize and build infrastructure, housing, entire settlements including social facilities, etc. Everything the local people need to live. In addition, I can imagine that even for Russians in the European part of the country, despite certain incentives, there is an inhibition threshold to settle there. And not just in Siberia. Russia's demographic problem also plays a role. Even if Russia makes it much easier for foreigners to migrate, most foreigners would rather settle in the European part of the country. But there are still very high legal barriers to migration.
Energy expansion, what is discussed here in the article and everything else I have already mentioned here is only part of the solution.
How does Russia want to solve the problem "Humans"?
As covered in my articles, Team Putin's plan is to offer monetary incentives to get people to relocate and remain in the East of the Urals regions, plus the vast expansion of new learning institutions to provide even more opportunities and incentives. If I didn't have my current obligations and future duties to family, I know exactly where I'd go and the type of business I'd start in the Astrakhan region where the Volga meets the Caspian Sea and get involved with the North-South Transport Corridor.
Just thinking about it, "then I see a delicious cake, but I'm not allowed to eat it". I can no longer work because of my health. That's why I don't have that option.
Just recently, I was talking to my eldest son about his future when he finishes his degree in architecture. I told him that Germany would not offer good conditions for at least the next two decades. I said to him: "The world is so big. Go outside. Go where there are "mentally healthy" people, where skilled workers are wanted and you can live well. In Russia and China, for example, there are projects for the next 500 years. Just look at what Russia still wants to build.".
But many young people are too phlegmatic. My son is one of them. There are also so many clichés about Russia in people's heads.
Oh, if I were young again and as clever as I am today. I know it's foolish to think like that.
Yeah, health is a factor, but family commitments are very powerful and my main reason for remaining inside the Empire. I do look forward to traveling, however.
that is positive where you are!.. the bc gov't sold the company bc gas.. now it is fortis - an example of taking a public utility and privatizing it - because it makes a lot of money..
Hey neighbour, do you know what the contracts look like with the US (integrated north-south grid)… I would not be at all suprised if they get a sweet deal for B.C. hydro/power (much like Canuck oil that US hasn’t paid a “market price” for for decades now… even though they literally print global reserve USDs into existence)
hi eric - the wc bennett dam on the columbia river... here are some excerpts from wikipedia -
"Bennett and the American company Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation of the United States had agreed that in return for a fifty-year water license, the Kaiser Corporation would construct a large dam on the upper Columbia River.[19] Not only would they pay for the construction, they would also return 20% of the electricity generated to British Columbia and pay the provincial taxes as well as water license fees.[20] Much to Bennett's dismay, the federal government of Canada dissolved the deal by asserting its right of control over international waterways and took over negotiations with the United States."
and "Bennett was successful in pressuring the federal government of Canada to allow British Columbia to 'sell electricity' to the Americans for a thirty-year period for the lump sum of US$275 million." sounds like a very good deal by today's standards... this is the only one that i know of, but there may be others!!
This huge country and its different, extreme climatic conditions are impressive and somehow also a little intimidating for a Westerner. Everything has gigantic dimensions. I have one question. I have to go into a lot of detail.
Russia still has centuries of work to do to urbanize and build infrastructure, housing, entire settlements including social facilities, etc. Everything the local people need to live. In addition, I can imagine that even for Russians in the European part of the country, despite certain incentives, there is an inhibition threshold to settle there. And not just in Siberia. Russia's demographic problem also plays a role. Even if Russia makes it much easier for foreigners to migrate, most foreigners would rather settle in the European part of the country. But there are still very high legal barriers to migration.
Energy expansion, what is discussed here in the article and everything else I have already mentioned here is only part of the solution.
How does Russia want to solve the problem "Humans"?
As covered in my articles, Team Putin's plan is to offer monetary incentives to get people to relocate and remain in the East of the Urals regions, plus the vast expansion of new learning institutions to provide even more opportunities and incentives. If I didn't have my current obligations and future duties to family, I know exactly where I'd go and the type of business I'd start in the Astrakhan region where the Volga meets the Caspian Sea and get involved with the North-South Transport Corridor.
Just thinking about it, "then I see a delicious cake, but I'm not allowed to eat it". I can no longer work because of my health. That's why I don't have that option.
Just recently, I was talking to my eldest son about his future when he finishes his degree in architecture. I told him that Germany would not offer good conditions for at least the next two decades. I said to him: "The world is so big. Go outside. Go where there are "mentally healthy" people, where skilled workers are wanted and you can live well. In Russia and China, for example, there are projects for the next 500 years. Just look at what Russia still wants to build.".
But many young people are too phlegmatic. My son is one of them. There are also so many clichés about Russia in people's heads.
Oh, if I were young again and as clever as I am today. I know it's foolish to think like that.
Yeah, health is a factor, but family commitments are very powerful and my main reason for remaining inside the Empire. I do look forward to traveling, however.
they sell off all the public utilities where i live.. nice to see that isn't so in russia with this example at least... thanks karl...
All our utilities here are publicly owned in our communalistic county.
that is positive where you are!.. the bc gov't sold the company bc gas.. now it is fortis - an example of taking a public utility and privatizing it - because it makes a lot of money..
Hey neighbour, do you know what the contracts look like with the US (integrated north-south grid)… I would not be at all suprised if they get a sweet deal for B.C. hydro/power (much like Canuck oil that US hasn’t paid a “market price” for for decades now… even though they literally print global reserve USDs into existence)
hi eric - the wc bennett dam on the columbia river... here are some excerpts from wikipedia -
"Bennett and the American company Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation of the United States had agreed that in return for a fifty-year water license, the Kaiser Corporation would construct a large dam on the upper Columbia River.[19] Not only would they pay for the construction, they would also return 20% of the electricity generated to British Columbia and pay the provincial taxes as well as water license fees.[20] Much to Bennett's dismay, the federal government of Canada dissolved the deal by asserting its right of control over international waterways and took over negotiations with the United States."
and "Bennett was successful in pressuring the federal government of Canada to allow British Columbia to 'sell electricity' to the Americans for a thirty-year period for the lump sum of US$275 million." sounds like a very good deal by today's standards... this is the only one that i know of, but there may be others!!
Thanks for that! News to me! Does sound like another raw deal …
I’m in the interior, so not too far from the WC Bennett
just listening on cbc a few minutes ago they are discussing the columbia river treaty and updates to it.. here is some of it from 11 days ago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/us-would-keep-more-hydropower-under-agreement-with-canada-on-treaty-governing-columbia-river/ar-BB1pPFZ0
where in the interior? cranbrook area, or nelson?? i love the bc and washington state interior!