Cannabis Grow Ops use More Electricity than the Mining Industry in Canada
The thought of marijuana cultivation brings to mind images of the a “Back to the Land” Movement, and perhaps of a philosophy that eschews waste and aims for practices that are more in tune with the environment.
But the marijuana business has a dirty secret: it is likely that illicit marijuana grow ops use 40 per cent more electricity than metal mining in Canada today.
The illicit cultivation of marijuana in Canada, in fact, is one of the single most energy intensive sectors in any industry in the nation, legal or not. More than 50,000 decentralized grows nationwide pack high wattage lamps into basements, sheds, and bunkers to fuel the domestic demand for billions of grams of the plant per year. Air exchange, cooling, dehumidification, and other infrastructure converge to demand as much as three per cent of all of the electricity generation nationwide.
Aggregate electricity production in Canada totals around 2300...
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