Wind development strategy: Hydro-Québec has free rein to reduce the impact of new wind production on the territory

May 30, 2024

Fondation Rivières welcomes the government corporation's willingness to take charge of wind power development in Quebec through its wind power development strategy. This opens the door to orderly planning of energy production on the territory, to a genuine social dialogue on energy production, and to a significant reduction in the impact of wind power production on the territory if new production is concentrated on already disturbed territories.

Sell the wind, kill Hydro-Québec on the altar of the private sector

April 11, 2024

In January 2018, Hydro-Québec CEO Éric Martel said, "If people start self-generating with solar, it's going to make electricity rates explode: it's the risk of the 'death spiral'." His logic was as follows: if customers start self-generating, there will be fewer customers to share Hydro-Québec's fixed-cost bill. Rising costs would become inevitable, pushing more customers to opt for self-generation. A downward spiral of customer attrition and economic death would follow.

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Energy development and TES Mauricie endanger our rivers

April 5, 2024

Normand Beaudet, in charge of mobilization at Fondation Rivières, talks about the TES Mauricie file and the mobilization against mega-wind turbines. Fondation Rivières is concerned. Undermining the social acceptability of wind energy is a threat to rivers. We need wind power to achieve our decarbonization objectives.

Dams on the Gatineau River? It's Groundhog Day

March 21, 2024

Gatineau River at risk Last week, we met with American Rivers Regional Manager Andrew Fisk. His mandate: to dismantle 100 of the 450 small

Jean Bédard sur la rivière Jacques-Cartier crédit_photo_Radio-Canada / Olivia_Laperrière-Roy

Tribute to Jean Bédard: protector of the Jacques-Cartier River

March 14, 2024

On this International Day of Action for Rivers, we pay tribute to biologist Jean Bédard. Discover a great protector of the environment who, in 1972, fought against Hydro-Québec to save an exceptional territory: the Jacques-Cartier River and its valley.

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Denationalization of electricity – Organizations denounce a historic setback and demand a real public debate

January 23, 2024

Civil society organizations are reacting to the intention of the Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Energy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, to table a bill that would legalize the direct sale of electricity between private companies, which which is currently prohibited.