{"id":8108,"date":"2014-05-30T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:35:54","slug":"le-gouvernement-couillard-deroule-un-tapis-rouge-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/le-gouvernement-couillard-deroule-un-tapis-rouge-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaunch of small hydroelectric power plants: the Couillard government rolls out a suspicious red carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:fr--><\/p>\n<p>This morning, at our offices, a press conference was held during which Fondation Rivi\u00e8res underlined the Couillard government&#039;s insistence on wanting to relaunch at all costs, in a period of energy surpluses and budget cuts, a program for the construction of small loss-making hydroelectric power plants which goes against the recommendations contained in the recent consultation report on Quebec&#039;s energy future, and which includes partners who are the vast majority directly or indirectly linked to reprehensible activities.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Couillard and his government, who promised to govern with \u201ctransparency\u201d and \u201crigor\u201d, have a duty to analyze the relevance of not renewing these contracts and to consider the negative environmental and financial impacts that they can cause. On this last aspect, moreover, Fondation Rivi\u00e8res sent earlier this week a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Xrv2X74ZpuPYCtnK3c5sETBhZmQsbiVn\/view?usp=share_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to the Minister of Finance, Mr. Leitao<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Present were the godfathers of the Sainte-Anne (Maxim Martin), Moisie (Gaston Lepage) and Rouge (Paul Pich\u00e9) rivers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1oEbs-DCKIKG-ecfgpbCzP9C1p7j2ULia\/view?usp=share_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read our press release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/politique\/quebec\/409615\/retour-des-minicentrales-sans-genie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWithout genius\u201d: the editorial by Antoine Robitaille, <em>The duty<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0Photo : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corim.qc.ca\/fr\/conference\/816\/2018-06-21-philippe-couillard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montreal International Relations Council (CORIM)<\/a><\/em><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><!--:--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, at our offices, Fondation Rivi\u00e8res held a press conference to highlight the Couillard government's insistence on relaunching a program to build loss-making small hydroelectric power plants at any cost, in a period of energy surpluses and budget cuts, which runs counter to the recommendations contained in the recent consultation report on Quebec's energy future.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,57,74,206,190],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","tag-energie","tag-hydroelectricite","tag-petit_barrage","tag-riviere-ouiatchouan","tag-val-jalbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}