Environmental Policy in Quebec: Unrest on the Horizon

Dostie, Pierre, Canadian Dimension

Jean Charest's minority Liberal government boasts that Quebec will reach the goals set out in the Kyoto Agreement, and this despite Harper's shameful refusal to add Canada's signature to it. Yet, it is his record on environmental issues since the beginning of his term in office that has been the most damaging to his government's credibility. There was the Suroit natural-gas-fuelled electric power-plant project, which he was forced to renounce due to widespread public outcry--and, more recently, his push to sell off Mount Orford, a vast and important national park specifically donated to the province for public use.

Wind energy, only recently developed in the eastern part of …

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Publication information: Article title: Environmental Policy in Quebec: Unrest on the Horizon. Contributors: Dostie, Pierre - Author. Magazine title: Canadian Dimension. Volume: 41. Issue: 5 Publication date: September-October 2007. Page number: 6. © 2009 Canadian Dimension Publication, Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Group.

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