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STILL, things are OK up north, with our welfare state politics and Euromalaise. Pierre Trudeau, age 71, just fathered a daughter. Ontario Hydro is raping St. James Bay, which at least gives us all something to talk about...
Panelists charged that the Hydro-Quebec project, which is currently being built in James Bay, Quebec, is damaging the area's ecosystem and destroying traditional native culture...
...Hydro-Quebec has no regard for our sacred lands," Mukash said...
When plans for Hydro-Quebec were announced in 1970, Quebec's premier, Robert Bourassa, called it the "project of the century." But Ann H. Stewart, coordinator of the Massachusetts Save James Bay organization, said opponents now refer to the project as the "folly of the century...
...Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec, backed by environmental groups, has sued Hydro-Quebec, the government-owned utility, to block the next stage of the James Bay project, which would affect the Great Whale and Nastapoca rivers, in the northernmost regions of inhabited Quebec, and three rivers farther to the south. Though the Crees have unsuccessfully fought the project for two decades, they now have a reasonable chance of at least stalling it when the courts rule on the case this summer. Growing environmental concern and worries about an uncertain economic climate have led some opinion leaders in Quebec...