The largest Hydro-Quebec employee unions are launching an advertising campaign to express their fears about the Legault government's intentions to privatize the state-owned company.
Launched with the theme “Our Own Powers,” the advertising campaign was piloted by the central union SCFP, which oversees the unions of 16,000 technical and administrative trades employees in Hydro-Québec.
According to CUPE, in light of Hydro-Québec's new management plan to double its electricity production by 2050, we are particularly concerned that the soon-to-be-expected bill from Finance, Innovation and Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon favors development. Private power generation and transmission projects hurt the state company.
However, this is not the opinion of expert energy analysts such as Pierre-Olivier Pinault, professor of energy sector management at the École des HAC de Montréal.
Given the strong growth in electricity demand, Mr. Pineau opined.
“On the contrary,” said Mr. In an interview with Radio-Canada, Pineau said, “It will be more established as a hydroelectric producer, a transporter and a distributor on Quebec soil. She has a lot to do in these three areas. »
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