LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Quebec: Hydro-Quebec
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Quebec's climate is generally temperate, with variations among the regions. Tourism is important throughout the province during the summer season, and in the winter the Laurentian Mts. attract skiers. The Eastern Townships (Estrie) region, near the New York and Vermont borders, has many fashionable lake and country resorts. Quebec has vast waterpower resources—Hydro-Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada. The massive James Bay Project, whose first phases exploited the flow of La Grande and nearby rivers, was dealt a severe blow in 1992, when the New York State Power Authority refused to sign a purchase contract; the proposed development of the Great Whale River was held up by opposition from the Cree who live in and claim the area. Further work on the entire project was suspended in 1994, but a 2002 agreement with the Cree allowed completion of the La Grande complex.
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MONTREAL, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Hydro-Quebec, through its subsidiary, ARGO-Tech Productions Inc., announced today an $8.3M (CDN) investment to increase the capacity of its Lithium Polymer Battery (LPB) pilot plant in Boucherville (Que.) for the production of electric vehicle battery prototypes. The announcement was made by Mr. Andre Caille, President and CEO of Hydro- Quebec. ARGO-Tech expects to complete expansion this fall and to be fully operational in the first quarter of 1998. This advanced battery pilot plant facility will employ about 40 highly specialized personnel.
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More than 90 percent of Quebec's area lies within the Canadian Shield, a rough, rocky terrain sculpted and scraped clean of soil by successive ice ages. It is rich in the mineral and hydro-electric resources that are a mainstay of the Quebec economy. In the Labrador Peninsula portion of the Shield, the far northern region of Nunavik includes the Ungava Peninsula and consists of Arctic tundra inhabited mostly by the Inuit. Further south lie subarctic taiga and boreal forest, where spruce, fir, and poplar trees provide raw materials for Quebec's pulp and paper and lumber industries. Although inhabited principally by the Cree, Naskapi, and Innu First Nations, thousands of temporary workers reside at Radisson to service the massive James Bay Hydroelectric Project on the La Grande and Eastmain rivers. The southern portion of the shield extends to the Laurentians, a mountain range just north of Montreal and Quebec City that attracts local and international tourists to ski hills and lakeside resorts.
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ARGO-Tech Productions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec, was formed in 1994 to assemble LPB prototypes for the Hydro-Quebec/3M partnership under an initial contract awarded by the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC). As a result of this investment, ARGO-Tech will increase its production capacity to meet electric vehicle battery needs in order to conduct extensive road tests during the next five years. The HQ/3M partnership will rely on this additional production capacity to ... sample other markets, such as large back-up-power systems for telecommunications networks. As an example, ARGO-Tech will have the required capacity to assemble annually 50 battery packs of about 30 kWh. The pilot plant will enable ARGO-Tech to thoroughly establish manufacturing processes and costs essential for the design of a large-scale production facility.
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The conservative government of Maurice Duplessis dominated Quebec politics from 1944 to 1960 with the support of the Catholic church. The Quiet Revolution was a period of social and political change. During the Quiet Revolution, English Canadians lost their control over the Quebec economy, the Roman Catholic Church became less important, and the Quebec government took over the hydro-electric companies.
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The conservative government of Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale dominated Quebec politics from 1944 to 1960 with the support of the Roman Catholic church. Pierre Elliot Trudeau and other liberals formed an intellectual opposition to Duplessis's regime, setting the groundwork for the Quiet Revolution under Jean Lesage's Liberals. The Quiet Revolution was a period of dramatic social and political change that saw the decline of Anglo supremacy in the Quebec economy, the decline of the Roman Catholic Church's influence, the nationalization of hydro-electric companies under Hydro-Québec and the emergence of a pro-sovereignty movement under former Liberal minister René Lévesque.
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