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For Manitoba Hydro, this is the best of times and the worst of times.
Utilities are being squeezed from both sides.
Provincial regulators worried that water and electricity could make themselves vulnerable to a string of bad luck, as well as those who want water and electricity to weaken its most effective insurance policy, the right to control water levels in Lake Winnipeg.
Lake Winnipeg is actually a battery for Manitoba Hydro.
Energy is stored there in the form of high water in the summer and released in the winter when it is most needed.
Unfortunately, for utility companies, politicians and residents around the lake believe that not only is there too much water in Lake Winnipeg this year, they think that the water level has been too high for too long in recent years, what they want to do about it.
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