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At a time when the province is rethinking its commitment to move B.C. back to energy self-sufficiency, the research points to an extreme drought in the making – the harbinger of a potential energy crisis for water-power-dependent British Columbia.

BC Hydro’s hydroelectric resources rely primarily on annual stream flows from melting snowpack to fill its reservoirs. And the province’s snowpack has shrunk – between 1956 and 2005, by 18 per cent.