First Nations face an uphill battle getting revenues from Hydro-Québec By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Apr 6, 2021 5:31pm Billy Diamond, then-grand chief of the Cree (left), and then-Quebec Justice minister Gérard D. Levesque, sign the James Bay agreement on Nov. 11, 1975. (Photo supplied by the Cree Nation of Waskaganish)
A coalition of First Nations from Quebec, Labrador, and Maine is opposing a proposed transmission line to carry Hydro-Québec electricity to New England, on the grounds that 36 per cent of Hydro-Québec’s energy is “stolen” from the First Nations on whose territory the electricity is produced, and that the transmission line will have an adverse environmental impact in Maine.
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