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- From: abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew A. Bennett)
- Subject: Hydro Quebec & the Cree reach Agreement
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:10:57 GMT
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- I have just heard that Hydro-Quebec and the Cree Tribe have reached a major
- agreement on Phase II of the La Grande hydroelectric complex in the James Bay
- area of northern Quebec. Three documents were signed in Montreal on
- January 8, 1993:
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- 1 La Grande (1992) Agreement
- 2 Complementary agreement #11 to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
- 3 A letter of agreement concerning financing of sewer reconstruction i
- northern Quebec.
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- The La Grande 1992 Agreement provides that some $50 million (in 1992 Canadian
- dollars to be indexed over 50 years) will be paid for the benefit of the people
- affected by the projects and for certain other "mitigated" works.
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- The Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, Matthew Coon-Come, signed
- the agreement. He said that the agreement is "evidence of the fact that the
- Cree people are not against all development. When called upon the Cree and
- Hydro-Quebec can sometimes find ways to ressolve practical problems. We need
- to find new ways beyond this present Agreement in which the resources on the
- Cree territory can be co-managed so as to create a more productive basis for
- the long-term relationship between the Cree people and the people of Quebec."
-
- Has anyone else heard anything about the agreement?
-
- -Drew
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