Hydro-Quebec is hoping New England states will purchase the power being generated by the utility’s massive projects underway in the northern part of the province. This spring, Hydro-Quebec and Vermont utilities announced a long term agreement to provide electricity to Vermont. At the same time, the Vermont legislature designated power generated by Hydro-Quebec as ‘renewable’. But concerns have been raised about the environmental impact of the diversion of rivers and flooding of lands involved in Hydro-Quebec’s expansion.
As part of VPR’s series Big Hydro: Going To The Source we travel to Montreal to hear Canadian perspectives on Hydro-Quebec.
We talk with Claude Demers, who has spent 30 years working on Hydro-Quebec projects and serves as the utility’s science communicator, and Daniel Breton a long-time Quebec environmentalist and founder of MCN21, a group devoted to independence from fossil fuels. Listen
We also hear the first in a series of reports from VPR’s John Dillon who visited Hydro-Quebec’s Rupert River project. Listen