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What, for example, are the current and future energy needs of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States? How will energy consumption affect the region? What parallels can be drawn between deregulation in the United States and the opening of energy markets in Mexico? What projects for the current year as well as for 10 years in the future will meet the energy needs of the region? What deci. [...] Another important area of concern pertaining to EIA procedures is the current inequity in the level of studies and analysis required for the different generation options; an inequity that, according to us, is slowing the development of renewable options at the benefit of fossil-fueled ones. [...] Unfortunately, it appears to us that the Working Paper Environmental Challenges and Opportunities of the Evolving North American Electricity Market falls victim to the ill-founded beliefs in the small is beautiful philosophy : "Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, the World Bank and others note that environmental impacts are proportionate to the scale of the project: large-scale, reservoir hydro-proj. [...] "Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, the World Bank and others See sections 4 and 5 of the present brief for a discussion and note that environmental impacts are proportionate to the scale of refutation of that bias against large-scale projects (for all options) the project: large-scale, reservoir hydro-projects have profound pervading the whole analysis of the Working Paper. [...] If the exclusion of large-scale hydro is simply the result of an ill-founded belief in an inherent superiority of the small scale, a belief that is then used as a pretext for protectionism, we refer the reader to the demonstration of section 4.1.