Its All about Quebec

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Its All about Quebec!

• Quebec This and Quebec That!
• Heaven Forbid if we dont bow down to the
  Quebecers!

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In the March 2007 Federal Budget, Quebec portion
of the new formula will increase by 4.1 billion
the annual amount Quebec receives in equalization
and transfers in the next three years.
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Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, had been
demanding an extra 3.9 billion annually for
Quebec.
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And with the new Budget money, Quebec gave its
residents a tax break - off the backs of Canadian
Taxpayers!
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Truly Amazing how Sheepish Canadians are to allow
this to happen!
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Not to mention the extra spending on a new 17
million Hovercraft to place Buoys in the River!
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Talk about protecting Canadians - Do you know how
many vessels the Coastguard uses in Quebec?
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20, including 7 bases, 4 Helicopters, and 2 high
speed Air Cushion vehicles (3rd one on order)
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Yet Newfoundland has 28,956 km of shoreline and
2.5 million square kilometers of continental
shelf, and sits on the edge of Canada.
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.and we dont even have a navy vessel in our
port, let alone 20 Coastguard Vessels
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Newfoundland was robbed by Canada to feed Quebec
with our Power for 100 years!
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Hydro Quebec employees 20,000 people and in 2004
had a 10.69 Billion Revenue
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Due to the lopsided nature of the 1969 contract,
Hydro-Quebec is currently earning an annual
profit of close to 2 billion compared to
Newfoundland and Labradors 32 million.
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Our province burns fuel to supply power to
residents while Quebec exports our Green Hydro
Power to the USA!
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Yet Our power generating assets consist of ten
hydroelectric plants, including  the Churchill
Falls hydraulic plant
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which by the way, is the largest underground
powerhouse in the world with a rated capacity of
5,428 megawatts (MW) of power, one oil-fired
plant, four gas turbines and 26 diesel plants.
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The Holyrood plant burns No. 6 heavy fuel oil at
the rate of approximately 6,000 barrels per day,
per unit at full load to produce steam at 538
degrees C and 13,000 Kpa at a rate of over 0.5
million kilograms per hour.
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Holyrood uses over 250,000 litres per minute of
sea water for cooling on each unit and 900,000
litres per day of fresh water.
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Canadian Press Engineers urge Quebec to
renegotiate obscene hydro deal
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Two Quebec engineers accused the provincial
government of having signed an obscene,
inequitable and exorbitant deal with
Newfoundland and Labrador
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The Smallwood government was SCAMED by the
Federal Government into handing over Churchill
Falls, which they did in good faith, basically
doing the French a huge financial favor. Just
so they wouldnt separate as they claimed.
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- what a bluff!
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It was the french that threaten to burn down
every power pole when Newfoundland proposed to
construct a power corridor down through Quebec in
order to transport the electricity from Upper
Churchill.
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Quebec said, you can sell the power to no one but
us. You cannot "wheel" Churchill Falls power
through the Hydro Quebec power grid. And, you
cannot build a power line to reach markets in the
US.
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We had no choice but to accept Hydro Quebec as
the middleman.
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As former Quebec Minister Eric Kierans said to
Peter Gzowski on September 24 "The agreement
had gone from 30 to 65 years. I couldn't believe
it... People don't take risks more than 20 or
30 years even on long term things ...
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That's how insane this thing was. The 65 year
agreement is "insane".
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Let's see how much Hydro Quebec pays for
Churchill Falls power.
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In 1976, it paid 3 mills, or 3 tenths of a cent,
per kilowatt hour.
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Today, it pays 2.7 mills, or just over one
quarter of a cent. By 2016, the price will drop
to 2 mills, or one fifth of a cent.
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Let's compare that with how much Hydro Quebec
gets when it sells power.
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Today, domestic consumers pay almost 60 mills, or
6 cents per kilowatt hour. Industrial consumers
pay 35 mills, or 3.5 cents.
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Today, Hydro Quebec pays only about 1/4 of a cent
for a kilowatt hour and then resells it for up to
6 cents.
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That's like buying oil at 1.65 a barrel and
re-selling it at the world price of over 30
(1990s price) a barrel. Imagine what it is at
65/barrel?
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Put another way, this equates to 1 cent per litre
of gasoline or 4 cents per gallon.
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After 2016, the price paid by Hydro-Quebec drops
to the equivalent of 1.22 a barrel for oil or
0.7 cents per litre ... that is, 3 cents a gallon
... for gasoline.
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... That's like exporting Mini Vans to the US for
1,200 each, compared to the current price of
21,000 each. After 2016, it will be like
exporting Mini Vans for 860 each.
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From 1976 to 1996, Hydro-Quebec received 96 per
cent of the benefits, while Newfoundland and
Labrador got only 4 per cent.
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To put this in perspective, in 1995, while
Hydro-Quebec received benefits of 1.4 million a
day from Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and
Labrador received just 45,000 a day
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This is a significant and fundamental injustice.
It should be a matter of concern to all
fair-minded Quebecers and, indeed, all Canadians.
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The Churchill Falls agreement must be
re-negotiated because it has yielded
unconscionably large benefits for Quebec and
unconscionably small benefits for Newfoundland
and Labrador.
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Costs keep going up to operate and maintain the
40 kilometres of dykes, the massive power house
with its 11 turbines, the huge transformers, and
the 200 kilometre power line to the Quebec
border.
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Costs have gone up because of inflation ...
something else not taken into account in the 1969
agreement.
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We own the resource and we have to fund the
maintenance of it, yet we have not received"a
fair and equitable return to Newfoundland as the
owner of the Churchill Falls resource".
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Churchill Falls power plant is the second largest
hydroelectric plant in North America, with an
installed capacity of 5,248 MW
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Currently Churchill Falls makes almost 1 of the
world's hydroelectric power.
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Two surveys show over 50 per cent of Ontarians
and Quebecers believe the notorious upper
Churchill contract between Quebec and
Newfoundland and Labrador should be renegotiated.
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The upper Churchill contract signed in 1969 and
set to expire in 2041 awarded Hydro-Quebec
Churchill Falls power at a low, fixed rate,
without the benefit of an escalator clause.
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Since 1972, Hydro-Quebec has gathered an
estimated 23.8 billion in revenues, compared to
Newfoundland and Labradors 680 million (The
Independents figures as of November, 2004).
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Part of the problem Newfoundland and Labrador has
experienced over the development of the Churchill
River stems from Quebecs refusal to allow a
power corridor through its territory
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as well as the federal governments past
refusal to intervene and force the issue.
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So why do we have French on our Cereal Boxes?
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Why dont we recognize other languages like Cree
or Inuktitut?
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Isnt this Discrimination of others in Canada?
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Or is it For Fair and Equal Treatment of
Quebec?
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Its time we changed all that!
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Lets Create a Diversion Dam around Churchill
Falls and Sell our Fresh Water to the U.S.A!
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Let the USA protect our provincial resources,
seeing that the Federal Government wont do it!
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The French Lost the War!
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So lets Take Back our Cereal Boxes!
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