Hydro-Québec

A Quebec Innu community is suing Hydro-Québec for $2.2-billion, claiming the Churchill Falls hydroelectric station has destroyed a significant part of its traditional territory.

Spokeswoman Lynn St-Laurent said that while the utility would like to tell customers when their electricity will return, it's difficult to estimate because most of those who are still without power are in remote areas and require complex repairs. 

Lengthy power outages that have left some Quebecers in the dark for days have exposed the province's lack of preparedness for the green energy transition to come, an expert said Wednesday.

Utility crews in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick were still working on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, to restore electricity to thousands of people in the dark days after last week's fierce winter storms knocked out their power.

Reaching the province's greenhouse gas targets isn't achievable without a new hydroelectric dam, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault said on Friday, September 16, 2022, adding that he's hoping to use the rest of the election campaign to tout his environmental plan.

Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault is promising to ask the province's hydro utility to consider building new hydroelectric dams, but he is not saying where or how he would realize the complicated, expensive megaprojects.

Acknowledging that Quebecers are among the highest taxed people in Canada, the two top parties running in Quebec's election campaign held competing news conferences in the provincial capital on Monday to promise income tax cuts if they are elected on Oct. 3.

One week after a severe wind and thunderstorm swept through Ontario and Quebec, just over 48,000 homes in the two provinces were still without power on Saturday, May 28, 2022.

Power outages caused by the powerful and deadly storm that swept across Ontario and Quebec on Saturday, May 21, 2022, are stretching into another day, as hydro providers warned customers they could be waiting even longer for things to be fully restored.

Emergency crews rushed to restore power and clear roads on Sunday, May 22, 2022, a day after a deadly and destructive storm swept across southern Ontario and Quebec, though officials cautioned that some of the outages could take days to resolve.

The hotly debated transmission buildout divided environmentalists, but experts say it was the only real hope for the state's — and the country's — climate goals.

Ahead of a likely federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped into Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday with a multibillion-dollar bailout package designed to beat down the soaring costs of the contentious Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project and avert a feared bankruptcy.

Communities along the $2.9-billion Champlain Hudson Power Express will be able to apply for financial assistance for job-training programs along with other non-traditional supports like daycare, transportation and retrofits for low-income households. 

The Magpie River is the first in Canada to be granted legal personhood rights, part of a growing global movement rooted in Indigenous beliefs.

In a recent public Conversations event with Canada’s National Observer, Hydro-Québec CEO Sophie Brochu said she believes the cost of the shift to a clean energy economy needs to be shared by all Canadians.