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Eastmain hydroelectric plant a go |
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
CBC.CA News
The Quebec government has announced that construction has begun on a controversial $5-billion hydroelectric project it is calling the biggest and most important of its kind in a decade.
The Hydro Quebec project will divert the Rupert River and build two hydroelectric plants, the Eastmain A-1 and La Sarcelle, which should become operational in 2010 and are expected eventually to generate as much as 900 megawatts of power.
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Rare dissent as federal panel endorses $4 billion Quebec hydro project |
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
Montreal (CP)-With the rare dissent of one of its members, a federal panel has approved the diversion of the Rupert River as part of a plan to build a hydro generating station in northern Quebec.
"I consider that the cost of the project is clearly advantageous compared to the other proposed hydroelectric projects," Jocelyne Beaudet said in her dissenting report.
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Three Quebec Cree communities vote against hydro plan to diver Rupert River |
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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
Canadian Press
NEMASKA, Que. (CP) _ The residents of three Cree communities in northern Quebec have voted against a project that will divert the Rupert River to construct the Eastmain 1-A hydoelectric project.
Opposition ranged between 73 and 91.5 per cent in Nemaska, Waskaganish and Chisasibi, the chiefs of the communities said in a news release.
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Top Ten Endangered Canadian Rivers Named |
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Monday, 07 July 2003 |
David Braun with Sean Markey - National Geographic News
Seven percent of the world's freshwater flows through Canadian rivers. But industrial development and pollution threaten many of Canada's rivers, according to the environmental groups EarthWild International and Wildcanada.net. To highlight rivers at risk, the groups announced their second annual list of the country's ten most endangered rivers today.
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