...authorities [in British Columbia, Canada] have benefitted [sic] from a 2006 law allowing BC Hydro, the area's main power company, to share its residential power consumption records with local officials... scanning residents' utility bills to determine who is using a lot more power than the average homeowner... Armed with that information, local authorities cut the power off to the home of the suspected offender... [homegrown pot is] collectively worth nearly seven billion dollars each year, account for a whopping six percent of this province's power consumption.
And folks complain about civil liberties encroachments down here!
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