“There is a reflection to be made as people in Quebec” when the time comes to sell our green electricity to American companies, estimates the Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Pierre Fitzgibbon.
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“Do we also want to help the planet or are we just egocentric for Quebec?” asked Pierre Fitzgibbon aloud with his hat as Minister of Energy, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Innovative Vehicle Institute (IVI), Friday.
“The New York contract is a good contract. Honestly, I look at the economic benefits for Hydro-Quebec, I cannot be against virtue,” he added.
End of October, The newspaper pointed out that while Hydro-Québec is delaying investment projects here, American firms like Micron and IBM are salivating while taking advantage of our low-cost “green” electricity.
Help competitors?
In the Journal, Jocelyn B. Allard, president of the Quebec Association of Industrial Electricity Consumers (AQCIE), shot an arrow by asking the question: “Are we helping competitors?”.
However, according to the economic minister of the Legault government, we must not neglect our American partners because our trade relations are tightly woven with them.
“We have to help our neighbours, the United States. That’s 70% of Canadian and Quebec trade. So I, the Buy American, want to be in it. To help the Americans, I am not against that, but at the same time you have to be careful because there are Quebec projects, ”he summarized.