CANADIAN DAM PROJECT
Montreal -- Hydro Quebec said New York's cancellation of a
$13 billion energy contract will not stop the utility's controversial
Great Whale dam-building project in the northern James Bay region.
"Energy consumption in Quebec will still force us to build Great
Whale," Hydro executive Pierre Bolduc said of the $10 billion project,
the second phase of a $62 billion plan that would divert three rivers
and flood an area of 1,600 square miles.
The project is opposed by the Cree Indians of the James Bay area, where
the dams to produce the energy would be built, and by conservationists.
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David Bridge
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