Geography 2010A/B Lecture : GEO2010 Chapter 6 Notes.docx
15 Dec 2013
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Active role in shaping the province"s industrial economy and its energy export strategy. Hydro-quebec has been central to this strategy by harnessing the province"s vast water resources and arranging long-term sales to utilities in new england. Economic objective has been to stimulate economic growth through state intervention in the marketplace. Hydro-quebec has undertaken construction of huge hydroelectric projects, developed high-voltage transmission systems, and offered low electric rates to industrial firms. Its political goal was to increase quebec"s public and private ownership of its economy within the francophone business community. Hydro-quebec is canada"s largest electric utility, ad expertise gained from huge hydroelectric construction projects has allowed its contracts to undertake similar projects around the world. Transmission technology: high voltage transmission lines that reduced power loss and thus made shipping electricity over long distances viable. While completion of the james bay project remains central to hydro- Quebec"s plans, its next construction project calls for the harnessing of.
