L' hydroélectricité du Québec et les grandes régions productrices

Abstract

Québec’s enormous hydroelectric production is a source of pride for the population and its elites. Does the hydroelectricity generated in Northern Quebec, the North Shore and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions, produced far from the Montreal and Quebec City metropolitan areas, benefit those outlying regions to the same extent that their significant hydroelectric production contributes to the overall wealth of Quebec? In other words, does the distribution of the hydroelectric income, or its dissipation, benefit the very regions where it is produced, which include a large part of rural Quebec? The authors believe that the history of the last century and, in particular, the last several decades shows that the local economic benefits from hydroelectric production has been reduced to a trickle.