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The Clothesline Makes A Comeback |
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
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WATERBURY, Vt., Aug. 27, 2007 - (Christian Science Monitor) By Caitlin Carpenter
It started out innocently enough. Concerned about global warming and her family's energy consumption, Michelle Baker wanted to hang her wash outside. She scoured stores for a clothesline durable enough to withstand Vermont winters and classy enough for her Waterbury backyard. She came back empty-handed every time.
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Vision of cheap power is trumping environment: "Hydro-Quebec aims to divert majestic Rupert River." |
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
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Montreal Gazette By Peter Hadekel.
If the world wasn't in the grip of high energy prices and panic over global warming, there would probably be a lot more debate over Hydro-Quebec's new project to expand the Eastmain 1 powerhouse and divert the Rupert River.
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Are Quebecers as 'green' as they think? |
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
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The Toronto Star By: Sean Gordon
The Rupert River, the last pristine, unspoiled major waterway in Quebec, carves its way through the boreal forest to the southern end of James Bay, a frothing, raging behemoth that for decades has been eyed by Hydro-Quebec engineers.
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Quebec view: Hydroelectricity Star power versus (somewhat) green power |
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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
The Globe and Mail- By Konrad Yakabuski
Celebrity activism is a rather underdeveloped genre in English Canada. There are no Sean Penns to kayak through the towns south of Winnipeg when the Red River floods, blaming it all on global warming and inept governments. No Barbra Streisands who sing at Liberal conventions to blast the right. We even had to import Brigitte Bardot to save the seals.
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Quebec gives go-ahead to $5B James Bay project |
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Friday, 12 January 2007 |
Montreal Gazette
Hydro-Quebec will proceed with a $5-billion expansion of its James Bay hydro-electric complex, the province's biggest construction project, amid a chorus of opposition by environmental groups and aboriginals.
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'Precious' river deserves second look, actor says |
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Friday, 12 January 2007 |
Montreal Gazette By: Michelle Lalonde
Environmental groups yesterday called for a one-year halt on Hydro-Quebec's Eastmain-1 power project and the diversion of the Rupert River, saying public consultation and environmental-impact studies were profoundly inadequate.
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