It will take 100 terawatt hours of new electricity to get Quebec out of its dependence on hydrocarbons and it will be impossible without dams, according to chief caquist François Legault.
On Friday, he criticized his opponents’ greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction plans.
The CAQ government is committed to reducing its GHGs by 37.5% compared to 1990 by 2030, in accordance with international agreements, but the Liberals are proposing a 45% reduction target, as is the Parti Québécois, while that Québec solidaire aims for at least 55%.
François Legault described the targets of his adversaries as unrealistic, since they rule out the construction of dams necessary, according to him, to provide electricity which will replace fossil fuels.
“Without a dam, it’s impossible,” he repeated after a press scrum Friday morning in front of his party’s office in Montreal.
“Do they want nuclear? Some gas? Petrol? They can’t just say: ‘we’re going to get energy, but we don’t know where’”.
He attacked Liberal leader Dominique Anglade, who is proposing a hydrogen production and GHG elimination project that would require no less than 170 terawatt hours.
“When Mrs. Anglade says that she is going to put wind turbines everywhere in Quebec, it does not work,” he denounced, referring to his discussions with Hydro-Québec and a necessary “balance” between the intermittency of the wind turbines which need wind, and dams that bring constancy thanks to their reservoirs.
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