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Hydro-Québec wishes to develop this project in collaboration with the communities concerned through a multi-stage public participation process.
The public is invited to speak with the project team during public participation activities. The team will collect comments from participants in order to better adapt the project to its environment.
This will allow the project team to hear the concerns expressed by the public and by community representatives so that we can adapt the project to the visions of the towns and boroughs where it takes place.
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Hydro-Québec has implemented a collaborative approach tailored to each city and borough concerned in order to establish a dialogue about the project and find ways to optimize it for everyone involved.
Depending on the city or borough, the approach may take the form of public information sessions, working groups, working committees or other mechanisms to be determined with each area.
Discussion meetings
Representatives from Montréal’s Large Parks and Greening Department
Since 2018
Hydro-Québec and municipal partners Committee
Several technical meetings with various municipal partners
Since 2019
Discussion with representatives from the borough of Saint-Laurent
Since 2018
Public information meeting
Representatives from the borough of Saint-Laurent
General public
May 28, 2019
Technical working group
Representatives from the borough of Saint-Laurent
October 25, 2019
December 6th, 2019
June 11, 2020
July 13, 2020
October 19, 2020
October 27, 2020
November 19, 2020
December 17, 2020
February 9, 2021
March 24, 2021
March 29, 2021
Meetings with representatives of the Town of Mount-Royal
February 1, 2021
Discussions with members of the Municipal Council and the Administration of the city of Côte-Saint-Luc
Since 2018
Côte Saint-Luc–Hydro-Québec working committee
Representatives of Hydro-Québec, of the city of Côte Saint-Luc and citizens of the city of Côte Saint-Luc
See the committee’s press release [PDF 110 Ko]
January 27, 2020
February 3, 2020
February 18, 2020
October 27, 2020
February 15, 2021
February 22, 2021
March 15, 2021
Public information meetings
General public
Members of the Municipal Council and the Administration of the city of Côte-Saint-Luc
TBD
Discussions with representatives from the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Since 2018
Technical meetings with representatives from the borough
January 11, 2019
February 22, 2021
March 19, 2021
Discussions with representatives from the City of Montreal West
Since 2018
Meetings of the city of Montreal West–Hydro-Québec working committee
Representatives and citizens of the city of Montreal West, Hydro-Québec representatives
See the committee’s press release [PDF 31 kB – in French only]
June 20, 2019
September 10, 2019
October 8, 2019
November 12, 2019
December 5, 2019
January 12, 2020
February 19, 2020
Public information meeting
General public
Representatives of the city of Montreal West
October 23, 2019
December 5, 2019
Discussions with representatives from the borough of Lachine
Since 2018
Public information meeting
General public
Representatives from the borough of Lachine
June 18, 2019
Technical meetings with representatives from the borough of Lachine
March 27, 2019
May 15, 2019
September 3, 2019
January 17, 2020
January 12, 2021
February 10, 2021
March 22, 2021
April 1, 2021
May 3, 2021
Discussions with representatives from the borough of LaSalle
Since 2018
Discussion meetings
Representatives from the borough of LaSalle
Since 2018
Public information meeting
General public
Representatives from the borough of LaSalle
May 14, 2019
Technical working group
Representatives from the borough of LaSalle
Since October 1, 2019
To help this project fit in with the urban development vision of its municipal partners, Hydro-Québec wishes to support possible greening and sustainable mobility initiatives along the line right-of-way. The objective is to create a corridor of biodiversity, connectivity and sustainable mobility. The feasibility of any these initiatives must take the specific needs and constraints of the surrounding environment into account.
The borough of Saint-Laurent’s biodiversity corridor project (called Vert-de-gris), now in the planning stage, is a good illustration of the type of work that can be done on power line rights-of-way.
For more information
The green link project in the LaSalle borough is another type of initiative that is compatible with the operation of a transmission line.
For information:
99% of our electricity is produced by hydropower generating stations, most of which are located in northern Québec.
Hydro-Québec’s transmission system is made up of lines and substations. It supplies electricity to Québec’s residents, most of whom live in the southern part of the province.
To cover these large distances while keeping losses to a minimum, the electrical voltage is increased using transformers in step-up substations. The electricity then travels to other substations over transmission lines (steel wires on towers). Once the electricity arrives near load centres, its voltage is reduced so that it can supply the distribution system.
Finally, the electricity travels through the distribution system over wires attached to wood poles. It arrives at residences and businesses at the correct voltage to power common devices like televisions.
The planned line will be built on an existing right-of-way where there is already a 120-kV overhead transmission line.
Whenever it’s impossible to build an overhead line because of insufficient space or an impassable obstacle such as a building.
Cost
≈$150 million*
Cost
≈$440 million*
* In discounted costs – parametric estimates
An underground line would cost about $ 290 million more than an overhead line, which would have an impact on electricity rates for all Quebecers.
*The recommended exposure limits for electric and magnetic fields are those of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), an organization affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The literature downloadable using these links will provide additional information:
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