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Climate: global warming undermines a hydroelectric dam in Haute-Savoie
Posted on 06/03/2023 21:50 Video length: 4 mins. FRANCE 3 Article written by C. Tixier, A. Fuzellier, O. Labalette, Y. Saidani – France 3 France Televisions Global warming disrupts hydroelectric…
Climate: global warming undermines a hydroelectric dam in Haute-Savoie
Posted on 06/03/2023 21:50 Video length: 4 mins. FRANCE 3 Article written by C. Tixier, A. Fuzellier, O. Labalette, Y. Saidani – France 3 France Televisions Global warming is jeopardizing…
The energy transition increases the value of our hydroelectric assets
Hydro-Québec, which will soon be 80 years old, has accumulated 193 large-power industrial customers during this period. Posted at 12:00 p.m. Claude Garcia Company director In recent months, the Crown…
Future hydroelectric dam: the Magpie river threatened?
The CAQ government refuses to exclude the Magpie River from places that could potentially host a hydroelectric dam, despite the lack of social acceptability. • Read also: Environment: a long-awaited…
Haute-Savoie: barely built, the order to destroy a hydroelectric plant creates controversy
Posted on 06/02/2023 15:13 Video length: 2 min. France 2 Article written by D.Sébastien, J-.P.Rivalain, France 3 Alpes – France 2 France Televisions In Sallanches, in Haute-Savoie, a brand new…
Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Generating Station | An Innu community sues Hydro-Québec
(Montreal) An Innu community is suing Hydro-Quebec for 2.2 billion, claiming that the Churchill Falls hydroelectric plant destroyed a significant part of its traditional territory. Posted at 3:14 p.m. The…
Conservative Party of Canada | Pierre Poilievre wants new hydroelectric dams in Quebec
If elected, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party of Canada would favor the construction of new hydroelectric dams in Quebec and the extraction of critical minerals to encourage the energy transition. Posted…
Magpie River | A jewel to be protected from hydroelectric development
During the election campaign this fall, Premier François Legault announced his intention to build new dams to meet the anticipated increase in energy demand in Quebec and elsewhere in North…
Hydroelectric dam projects | Ottawa must let Quebec assess impacts, says Poilievre
(Ottawa) Only one environmental study must be conducted to evaluate the hydroelectric dam projects proposed by Quebec Premier François Legault during his second term. And this assessment can very well…
Hydroelectric production | Hydro-Québec brings out its old projects
Premier François Legault is convinced that other dams must be built to meet Quebecers’ need for electricity, which is prompting Hydro-Québec to pull its old projects out of the boxes…
Hydro-Québec buys Great River Hydro in New England for 2 billion. It gets its hands on 13 hydroelectric power stations.
A subsidiary of Hydro-Québec announced on Wednesday the signing of an agreement to acquire Great River Hydro, which owns 13 hydroelectric power stations in the northeastern United States, for 2…
Federal-provincial tussle in sight over hydroelectric dams
Any new hydroelectric dam project in Quebec risks leading to a federal-provincial standoff. Such a structure would in fact be subject to a federal environmental assessment, despite the Quebec impact…
They are building a hydroelectric plant with two
Posted on 09/16/2022 17:08 Raw. Article written by Antoine and his father Serge are building a hydroelectric power station in Normandy. Eventually, it should be able to supply 500 homes.…
Hydroelectric dams are ‘not a panacea’, experts say
While it is true that Quebec’s electricity needs will increase in the coming years, there are many other solutions than building hydroelectric dams to meet the challenge of energy transition,…
Environment | Legault wants to build new hydroelectric dams
(Bécancour) François Legault dreams of building new dams. He mandates Hydro-Quebec to evaluate this possibility and to present to him in “the next few months” proposals to launch construction sites.…
REPORT. At the heart of the Mer de Glace hydroelectric power station, which has been hit by global warming
Built at the same time as the hydroelectric power station, the EDF green cable car flies over Chamonix (Haute-Savoie), its skiers and its chamois on the slopes of the Mer…
IN PICTURES – Chamonix: under the Mer de Glace, the hydroelectric power station in the face of global warming
Seen from the outside, nothing suggests the gigantic installation hidden in the cliff. The Bois cable car in Chamonix leads to miles of galleries carved into the rock. The EDF…