Geography 2010A/B : NOTE Quebec (248-257).docx
18 Dec 2013
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Hydro quebec has been central to strategy of shaping province"s industrial economy by harnessing the province"s vast water resources and arranging long term sales to utilities in new england. Another spinoff was the breakthrough transmission technology that enabled hydro-quebec to transmit electrical power from. Churchill falls and james bay to markets in southern quebec and new england with acceptable levels of electric leakage. Northern quebec can produce vast quantities of low cost electrical power. Hydro quebec has a long term contract to buy power from churchill falls in labrador at 1969 prices. Hq has control over its price structure and can set extremely low power rates for its industrial customers. Hydro quebec"s james bay project: this massive project calls for the production of hydroelectricity form all the rivers that flow into james bay from.
