Last fall a Hydro-Quebec pipeline leaked over 100,000 litres of diesel in the Magdalen Islands, only a small fraction of which was recovered.
For example, the Hydro Quebec collapse was associated with a storm-related dB/dt = ~480 nT/min.
I remember quite well Hydro Quebec's electric lines collapsing under the weight of ice in the 1990s.
The government-owned Hydro Quebec already profits from selling surplus electricity, most of it already generated in the north, to the United States.
The Hydro–Quebec power system collapsed because of the strong geomagnetically induced current (GIC) that flowed in power lines in North America.
The contract for the system, a 300-megawatt, 25-mile link, was placed by TransEnergie U.S., a unit of Hydro-Quebec of Canada.
TransEnergie, a subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec, would complete the 26-mile cable by May 2002 from New Haven to the site of the now-defunct Shoreham nuclear plant.
The new agreement will allow Quebec's public hydroelectric company, Hydro-Quebec, to begin studies that could lead to a substantial increase in power development on lands occupied by the Inuit.
Since the 1989 storm that knocked out Quebec's electrical grid, the Canadian energy company Hydro-Quebec has strengthened its transmission system to fend off a repeat event.
In March 1989, a solar storm caused Canada's Hydro-Quebec power grid to collapse within 90 seconds, leaving millions of people in darkness for up to nine hours.
In March 1989, a geomagnetic storm caused Canada's Hydro-Quebec power grid to collapse within 90 seconds, leaving millions of people in darkness for up to nine hours.
