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    Quebec’s battery

    May 01, 2022 3 minutes
    BY ZACHARY MATSON

    The scale of Hydro-Quebec’s portfolio of dams and reservoirs is staggering.

    The projects have remade the social and natural landscape of northern Canada.

    The impoundments, many of which lie in vast boreal forests more than 500 miles north of Montreal, dwarf Adirondack lakes. Quebec’s largest reservoir, Caniapiscau Reservoir, covers 1,600 square miles, almost four times the size of Lake Champlain.

    Before the Caniapiscau River was dammed in the early 1980s, the original Caniapiscau Lake covered 180 square

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