Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VI. Water powers

Collection:: Economics Books

WATER POWERS J 7 in reserve at the call of the commission, delivery being made at 110,000 volts at Rémis rapids on the interprovincial boundary for transmission to various points in eastern Ontario. Lake St. John District.—In the Lake St. John district the Duke- Price Power Company has a development of 495,000 horse-power at Isle Maligne, on the Saguenay river, which constitutes the present largest single development in the province. Power from this station goes to pulp and paper mills in the district, to the newly established aluminium industry at Arvida and part is also purchased by the Shawinigan Water and Power Company and delivered over a long transmission line to Quebec city and district. Active construction is also proceeding on the Alcoa Power Company's development at Chute-4-Caron, Saguenay river, which is being undertaken in two stages. The initial development, now under construction will have an installation of 260,000 horse-power. The ultimate development under a higher head will have an installation of approximately 1,000,000 horse-power. Pulp and Paper Installation.—The power demands of the pulp and paper industry are large and as over 52 per cent of the ground wood pulp and over 44 per cent of the newsprint manufactured in Canada during 1926 were produced in Quebec it is obvious that the power required was very considerable, in fact over 782,000 horse-power is utilized in this industry in Quebec, about 566,000 horse-power being purchased from central electric stations and the remainder directly installed for the industry. An interesting feature of the pulp and paper industry in the province is the amount of electricity used in the production of steam for heating or process cooking. Generally speaking it is uneconomic to use electricity for steam raising in competition with coal, but where the water supply is in excess of that required to meet the demand for electric power or where mills have contracted for more power than is actually necessary to drive their machinery the excess in either case, which otherwise would be wasted, can be advantageously used in raising steam. Naturally, when electric power as such, is fully required for motive power the raising of steam will revert again to fuel boilers. The Quebec Streams Commission.—Very valuable assistance has been given towards the economic utilization of the provincial water- powers by the Quebec Streams Commission, established by act of the legislature in 1910. The commission carries out basic investigations as to the water resources of the province in co-operation with the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior and has also constructed engineering works of great magnitude and im- portance to store flood waters and regulate and augment stream flow, measures which have proved successful to a striking degree. 881057

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