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In the first notebook, Charles documents his visits to central and northern lakes in Quebec. Gamache thinks “Just for show,” but at the end of the book, Gamache reexamines it and gets a sense of why Lavigne was so desperate to get it. Could it have something to do with perhaps the destruction of water dams that would affect North America’s eastern power grid maybe? Not only would blowing up a dam destroy the power source and put huge parts of the eastern States and Canada in the dark, but the flooding water would destroy all the land downriver from it. (And, as for context and coincidence, I had this idea before the news this week that Ontario’s premier would consider turning off electricity to the US if tariffs are imposed.) The one drawback with my theory is, as Libby points out, Louise has done the blow-up-the-dam plot already. So what is it?
I did have another guess but I think it’s maybe too sinister for Louise to write about. But it would be bigger and disastrous in a different way. The idea came to me after Nancy mentioned copper smelters, arsenic, and Canadian resources and lakes. So, Canada is the second largest exporter of uranium in the world. It’s mined in Saskatchewan (the mines just happen to be named after various lakes). There’s no mining of uranium in Quebec, but there is a nuclear supply chain that runs between Quebec and Ontario. Could the plot that the black wolves are hiding be that they are trying to steal uranium? Is that what Charles discovered?
