Canada’s Manitoba Province Enacts 18-Month Moratorium on New Crypto Mining

“We can’t simply say, ‘Well, anyone can take whatever [energy] they want to take and we’ll simply build dams’,” Finance Minister Cameron Friesen, the minister responsible for the province’s utility Manitoba Hydro, said on Monday, according to reports by CBC and CTV News Winnipeg. A spokesperson for the province’s utility confirmed the news to CoinDesk via email.