{"id":738146,"date":"2026-06-15T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:32:09","slug":"quebec-media-questioning-if-working-with-nl-is-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738146\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Media Questioning if Working with NL is Beneficial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/churchill.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Quebec Media Questioning if Working with NL is Beneficial\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between this province and Quebec have resumed on reaching a memorandum of understanding on Churchill Falls and future hydro development, however questions are being asked in Quebec about whether partnering with NL on hydro development is beneficial to that province. <\/p>\n<p>The previous MOU, rejected by a review panel put together by Premier Tony Wakeham, had Hydro Quebec footing the $25-billion bill for development \u2013 in exchange for access to new projects on the Churchill River. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/opinion\/idees\/986915\/volte-face-terre-neuve-est-occasion-inesperee-quebec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An opinion piece in Le Devoir<\/a> questions whether proposed hydro expansion on the Churchill River and the development of Gull Island are good for Quebec. <\/p>\n<p>Serge Roy says Quebec only has guaranteed access to electricity from Gull Island for 40 years. <\/p>\n<p>Among the options being considered by Hydro Quebec is the development of 10,000 MW of wind power, at half the cost of developing Gull Island.<\/p>\n<p>Roy says when it comes to Gull Island, NL will be the primary beneficiary, while building wind turbines in Quebec will benefit Quebec. <\/p>\n<p>He argues there is no reason to give this province $25.5 billion for projects that \u201cbring no value to Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) Negotiations between this province and Quebec have resumed on reaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-738146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}