GEOG 2040Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Automotive Products, Robert Bourassa
13 Feb 2016
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Cheap and plentiful energy is key to industrial development. Energy used to be produced from the lumber. Both renewable and non-renewable sources have significant environmental, social, and health impacts. Canada is the 5th largest energy producer in the world. Largest producer of uranium and 2nd largest hydroelectric producer. 98% of exports go the united states (venerable to policies for pricing boom and bust; supply and demand) Renewable 26% (mostly hydroelectric, including biomass, wind and solar) Energy products 25% (very dependent on the united states) Hydroelectric production in quebec a major driver of the provincial economy. Northern regions of the province seen as vast empty wilderness that quebec. Quebecois identity explicitly linked to hydroelectric projects. Decolonization for quebec meant further colonization of indigenous peoples and. The largest hydroelectric undertaking in the world at its time. Officially announced in 1971 by quebec premier robert bourassa. Cree and inuit opposition forced the quebec government to negotiate the.
