François Legault’s inaugural speech this week was solid and soft. On one topic his speech was clearly stunning: the green economy. This desire to get rich while meeting our climate commitments clearly inspires the Prime Minister.
To achieve this goal, François Legault has taken an idea he raised during the campaign further: building new dams. This time he expresses his vision more precisely.
Adding half a Hydro-Québec to the already impressive amperage would need to do the trick. We need to electrify transportation, power our industries with clean energy, and power our neighbors in Northeast America.
new dams
François Legault has put the construction of new dams on the agenda for the coming decades. He first insisted that we must have a discussion together on the matter: ” […] Quebec must decide on its energy future. We cannot escape this debate. »
I am extremely interested in this dam debate. I’m curious to see how the most militant defenders of environmental policy will behave.
In theory, a person invoking the extreme climate emergency should want the sources of emitting energies to be replaced as soon as possible. In that sense, they should speak of Quebec’s sacred duty to develop its hydropower potential as quickly as possible.
They should get behind Quebec’s back to offer those who use coal, oil or gas a clean alternative as soon as possible. Quebec has the territory and knowledge to offer this.
mistakes of the past
However, I am not so sure whether this is the approach spontaneously advocated by the Greens. Because in several circles of activists the reflex is AGAINST, especially AGAINST large projects and certainly AGAINST profitable projects.
Furthermore, in the decades that Quebec has developed its potential, the environmental movement has never applauded and seen nothing but harm. With the exception of a few environmental thinkers like Dansereau, Robert Bourassa had the great dams built by opposing environmentalists. If Robert Bourassa hadn’t defied the “idealists” of the day, Quebec would now emit as many greenhouse gases as the other Canadian provinces.
We rarely hear the leaders of big green causes, who claim to know the future and promote the common good, openly saying how wrong their movement was a few decades ago.
It’s easy to always be on the right side and demonstrate for the noble cause of the environment like it’s absolute.
Today, environmentalists have a real choice to make. Massive supply of clean energy thanks to new dams. You have to be for it or against it.
