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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
Toronto Sun
A group of U.S. environmental organizations backed Canadian groups fighting a hydroelectric dam in Quebec yesterday, but construction has already begun, and the government-owned power utility building the dam says it is too late to stop the $5- billion project.
Eighteen U.S. environment groups called for a moratorium on construction of the 893-megawatt project on the Rupert River, one of Quebec's biggest rivers, which flows into James Bay. The group says the project is unnecessary and warns about mercury contamination in the river.
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