Landowners would regain ownership to whatever resources may lie in the earth under their property. Neighbours would have the freedom to connect power lines across shared property lines. Recent breakthroughs in solar photovoltaic technology promise to drastically reduce its cost and increase its versatility. New developments have occurred in wind power conversion and include kites that generate power while remaining aloft in the wind. New designs of water turbines that can be installed in fast moving streams and generate small amounts of power are being tested worldwide.

          It is possible to produce small amounts of power from low-grade geothermal energy during some seasons in some parts of Canada. Property rights would bypass the red tape of centralized control and give large numbers of people the freedom to install such technology on their premises and to sell power to their neighbours. Provincial governments may balk at the idea of owners of private property connecting power lines across shared property lines. The alternative would be to use an emerging new wireless technology that can transmit small amounts of electric power over short distances.

          Such technology was originally conceived by Nikola Tesla and is beyond the scope of provincial power regulation across Canada. Federal telecommunications regulation focuses on the broadcasting of information and not electric power. It would be totally counterproductive for any provincial authority to seek or be granted regulatory powers over the airwaves. People need to be free to engage in peaceful and mutually beneficial trade. Peaceful people are quite able to do so in an environment that is free from state economic control.

          New types of megapower generation technologies are emerging that are carbon free. One such technology is being developed by Clean Power Systems of California. The fastest way to introduce such technology into Canadian service is to allow it to operate in total freedom from economic regulation. A large carbon-free power station could serve the needs of an entire region. Ontario will need to replace several of its aging thermal power stations over the next two decades. Ontario's refusal to allow carbon-free power stations to operate without economic regulation could see such power stations being built elsewhere in Canada.

          Such a power station could theoretically be built on an island in the south of Hudson Bay and export electric power or hydrogen to either Quebec or Ontario. It is possible for oceanic turbines to be installed in some of the channels in Hudson Bay where powerful tidal currents occur. Those turbines along with the power station could produce hydrogen that could be carried in an undersea pipeline under Hudson Bay and under James Bay to markets in Ontario and Quebec. Such an undersea pipeline already carries natural gas from Norway to the United Kingdom.

          The total economic deregulation of carbon-free power generation in Canada could be viable. It could also avoid the massive malinvestment that is likely under a regime of state regulation of carbon emissions across Canada. A regime of property rights could theoretically take care of atmospheric pollution since nearby property owners could initiate class action lawsuits against the polluters. Global warming on Mars suggests that since the phenomenon does exist elsewhere in this solar system, its cause on this planet may be something other than atmospheric carbon emissions on earth.