The report by the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) finds the project to build a hydroelectric power station in majestic Canyon Sainte-Anne unacceptable.
Since April 2012, Fondation Rivières has sent five complaints to the Office of the Complaints Commissioner of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy (MAMROT) concerning the hydroelectric power station project in Val-Jalbert.
An occupation of the Val-Jalbert cable car site was undertaken this morning by citizens wishing to denounce the ransacking of the site and the government's inaction, while Fondation Rivières filed a 5th complaint with MAMROT.
A new Léger Marketing survey reveals that 51% of citizens are opposed to the construction of a mini-hydropower station on the Ouiatchouan River in Val-Jalbert.
Montreal, February 19, 2013 - Citizens from the Ilnue community of Mashteuiatsh, the Comité pour la sauvegarde de la Ouiatchouan à Val-Jalbert (CSOV) and Paul Piché have demonstrated that social acceptability is not forthcoming in the project to build a hydroelectric power station on the Val-Jalbert historic and heritage site on Lac Saint-Jean.
Fondation Rivières welcomes the Marois government's decision to cancel six of the seven hydroelectric power plant projects in Quebec. In the case of Val-Jalbert on the Ouiatchouan River in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, Fondation Rivières is also calling for the cancellation of the project, which is clearly unjustified not only in terms of cost, but also in terms of its environmental, social and tourist consequences.
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