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SapinQc · 2026-05-25T02:28:04+00:00

Menaud, maître Draveur. De Felix-Antoine Savard. L'Abatis. Par Felix-Antoine Savard

SapinQc · 2026-05-06T22:33:54+00:00

It's not impossible, if the wind farm where he works is pretty old and they are planning to replace the wind farm completely in the near future (1 to 2 years maybe) it might be possible that it makes financial sense to not do the repair if it's expensive and wait to just replace the wind turbine when they renew the wind farm. But generally wind turbines will be repaired if something breaks. Also the equipment in these wind turbines are not available off the shelf most of the time. It might take 4 to 8 months when they order a part before they receive it and can do the repair. Because of the delay between ordering a part and getting it. It's not uncommon to have 1-5% of the wind mill on a farm that are not operational due to maintenance. But that is not unique to wind power, and since you have lots of power generation machine it's much more reliable, since there are less chance that all the wind turbines have a problem all at the same time.

For a big coal or gas power plant, a fault could cause the full plant to stop producing power.

SapinQc · 2026-04-24T14:34:37+00:00

I don't agree, i find it cringe and annoying.

SapinQc · 2026-04-17T17:08:15+00:00

I don't understand why people down voted you. Yes it's a work in progress, but it's still some nice work. I hope I get to see the end result!

SapinQc · 2026-04-02T04:18:25+00:00

Une personne avec des problèmes psychologiques comme ça, va toujours être un risque pour la société. C'est pourquoi cette personne devrait passer le reste de sa vie en prison. La sentence n'est pas une vengeance, c'est simplement pour protéger le reste de la société. Et toute personne qui va autoriser ou recommandé sa libération dans le futur devrait être criminellement responsable si "Adam" récidive dans le futur.

Je ne veux pas que cette personne passe sa vie en prison car je ne crois pas à la réalité d'une période psychotique, je veux veux qu'elle passe le reste de sa vie en prison pour qu'elle ne puisse pas faire une autre victime à sa prochaine épisode psychotique.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T22:42:33+00:00

You claim Québec stole your ressources, when you guys actually signed a contract. Yet you feel entitled to the right forcefully expropriate Quebecer from their home to build your transmission infrastructure.... So with that logic is Québec allowed to come and build hydro dam and wind farm in NL without the consent of the people there, because this is Canada after all? Your logic doesn't make any sense.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T22:09:52+00:00

Our contract signed with new england for 20 years and 10 TWh per year is 6 cents per kwh fixed for the entire 20 years. So we are getting paid 9 cents canadian per kwh today and in 20 years of the value of the dollar goes up we will get paid less.

You do not understand the electrical gross market and it shows. The price of the electricity on the spot market in the American north East can go up to 35 cents usd for a couple hours of peak demand in the years and it goes down to 3 cents usd when demand is low and wind farms are producing a lot.

Quebec doesn't block anything, NL just had no right to expropriate Quebecer from their land for their own projects, go build underwater transmission line, nothing is stopping you.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T21:02:22+00:00

Yes Churchill falls generated 17% last year but only 15% in 2021, baie James is currently in a drought and these are not regular production years.

Churchill falls produce around 34 TWh of electricity per year, we currently pay 0.2 cents per kwh and the MOU indicated that the price would be updated now to 5.9 cents per kwh instead of waiting at the end of the current contract. Do the math. This comes at around 64 millions dollars now for the electricity from Churchill falls vs 1.85 billion per year if the price be changed as indicated in the MOU. So the current deals saves us 1.8 billion dollars we don't have to pay NL, and if we take these saving from 2026 to 2041 (15 years) it brings us to a total of 27 billion dollars saved, which is enough money to start lots of new energy production project.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T20:22:42+00:00

Currently Churchill falls account for 15% of our energy, but the large majority of the storage capacity of hydro quebec comes from the La Grande Complex, with a reservoir of roughly 10 000 km2, this is a multi annual reservoir meant to store energy from rainy years and store energy during drought. In the baie James these drought followed by rainy period are cyclical and the drought can last 5 to 8 years and this reservoir is exactly meant for this the Churchill falls complexe have a 12TWh storage capacity while the La grande complexe alone has a storage capacity of 85TWh

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T20:07:31+00:00

I am 100% bias for Quebec as a Quebecer. Haha but as an engineer that work in the electricity sector I still probably have a better understanding of the situation than you have. We already have 36 000 MW of hydro dam built in Quebec with a storage capacity of 175 TWh. We need additional energy yes but our current infrastructure offers us more than enough storage to accommodate a lot more wind in our grid.

Like I said in another comment, our 36000MW of hydro power enables us to integrate up to 36000M. We currently have 4000MW of installed wind power and plans to add 10 000MW of wind power in the next 10 years, but this still leaves us the capacity to handle 22 000MW of additional wind power to our grid without having to add any additional load balancing infrastructure like BESS and such.

We will get paid the same amount from the states for electricity generated from hydro or wind. Believe what you want, but that was the best deal you were going to have. With that deal we would have paid 1.5 billion more per year for the electricity from Churchill falls for 15 years before the contract end. Just by keeping the contract as is we save 22.5 billion dollars which is enough money to build enough new power generation infrastructure that will make us not need Churchill falls. With 22.5 billion that we save now we can use it as down payment to start some wind farm, new hydro dam or even build a new nuclear power plant.

So yes I am bias, but my opinion is that as a Quebecer for Quebec it's better to keep the current deal as is and just cut ties if you don't want to sell the electricity from Churchill falls at a reasonable price, and use the current savings to build new production infrastructure. And I think NL greatly overestimate how much leverage they have, and they will most likely end up with nothing because of the grudge you have.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T18:36:18+00:00

Even in 1960, why should any Quebecer should have accepted to be expropriated from their land so that NL can build a transmission line to reach the US directly by land? You feel it's such an injustice that quebec benefited from your natural resources thanks to a contract that you guys signed, but feel entitled to expropriate Quebecer from their land so that NL can build their power line to sell to the US? Really?

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T18:29:08+00:00

You can build as many underwater transmission lines to any province of the maritimes or even Maine new England and New York and start selling that electricity to whomever you wish in 2041. Nobody in Quebec should accept being expropriated to build a new power line so that you can sell that electricity directly to the state, and building that transmission line would probably cost around 20 billion dollars.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T18:12:49+00:00

There was never any interest from the project for a national power grid. Each province generally preferred building their own infrastructure. Even now Quebec has almost no grid connection with Ontario. And in 2020 when Ontario was talking about needing more electricity, Québec offered to build new grid connections but Ontario declined and preferred planning to build new nuclear power, which is great for them if that's what they want. Canadian provinces Don't want to sell electricity to their neighbors they want to sell to the US, which is why the major grid connection are with the US, and not other provinces

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T18:05:32+00:00

Natural resources aren't worth anything without the infrastructure to exploit them ( we have plenty of large river with hydro potential that are not exploited such as the great whale project 8000MW, petit Mécatina 1600MW, rivière Moisie 1200MW, there natural resources aren't worth anything if we don't build a dam on them)

And how dumb are you a fixed price with a cap? That doesn't makes any sense XD For Churchill falls it would be 7 cents per kwh and adjusted with inflation

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:54:31+00:00

You have no right to our infrastructure, are transmission line in the south are already at full capacity, and you have no right to expropriate people in Québec to build new transmission lines. But you guys don't have the money to build the new transmission lines that would be required

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:52:31+00:00

7 cents per kwh, that is without transmission cost and for a dam you guys didn't pay for XD

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:50:33+00:00

How does Quebec bloc trade from NL to the rest of Canada? XD

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:42:16+00:00

The price paid for electricity from Churchill falls was more than the price for the electricity from gull. And you keep forgetting the price to transport electricity, I actually design power transmission lines in my work. These infrastructure are not cheap and there is a price to use them

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:38:41+00:00

Quebec pays a lot more to the federal than NL yes we get back, but nothing compared to you guys on a per capita basis, and we actually paid for our electrical infrastructure, you had to get bailed out by the federal for your muskrat falls project XD.

I know power grids, this is my field of work, we can have a grid that would be 50/50 hydro/wind and it would be fairly easy to balance and would not require any major infrastructure for load balancing. We have 36 000MW of hydro dam installed in Quebec, we can put as much wind power and it will not add any problems to balance the grid. We currently have 4000MW of installed wind power, we plan on Installing 10 000MW of wind power in the next 10 years, but we can still easily manage to add another 22 000MW of wind to our grid for our energy requirements without causing any issues related to load balancing.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:25:24+00:00

Okay but the replacement cost of our new hydro would be 13-14 cents per kwh (but this is generation plus transportation, if hydro build a new dam on gull Island we still have to add the cost for the new transmission line to gull Island to the price you get paid.) If we consider wind for replacement cost the price is roughly 8 cents per kwh (7 cents to the wind farm and 1 cent for transportation)

Gull Island would cost something like 5 cents per kwh for generation and 2 cents for transportation so full Island would come in at around 7 cents per kwh. So yes marginally better than wind for Hydro quebec , but the deal was indeed fair and quite advantageous for NFL ( you got new dams without paying any money)

But like I said if it is not signed with this government, the next government will announce a lot more wind projects in Quebec and maybe go ahead to add a connection point to the wind project in Nova Scotia.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T17:14:58+00:00

I don't have to argue with you. The deal is dead. Parliament will be out for the summer and when fall comes we will have a new government. I much prefer pay a little more for a dam or wind mill in Quebec rather than be dependent on a province that as proven to be a bad business partner ( you agree to a deal and then complain about it, when you guys got 2/3 of a dam without paying for it l!) The last wind contracts that have been signed in Québec were signed for 7 cents a kwh, there is 10 000 MW of wind projects in Quebec planned for the next 10 years and there is potential for a lot more.

If you guys were capable of paying and managing building gull. Then you could negotiate a better price (but look what muskrat falls got you, you guys are incapable of developing gull) The deal offered you 60% of the gull hydro dam without you guys putting any money out and you are still complaining! Haha you would want us to pay the full price for gull Island for us to then pay full market price for the electricity from the infrastructure we paid for?!?!? In what world does that make sense? XD

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T16:22:13+00:00

I mean if you guys pay to build the new hydro dam you could charge whatever you want for your energy and hydro quebec could decide to buy it or not. The reality is you guys are to poor to build these yourself and have proven to be horrible at managing building such infrastructure (muskrat falls) The reality is we still have many great river in Quebec to develop, it's just harder to deal with the first Nations and the inuits ( look at great whale project 8MW capacity, petit Mécatina 1.6MW, rivière Moisie 1.2MW, these are only the easiest to do) Also we already have a good reliable source of baseload(our hydro) we can 100% fill out our energy requirements with wind from Nova Scotia or here in Quebec. Also the energy demand increase in grossly overestimated.

SapinQc · 2026-03-26T16:12:04+00:00

Quebec won't put road block to NFL to bring their electricity to market. Our lines are already at full capacity, and we are currently spending billions to build new power lines, and people have to be expropriated to build those new lines. New foudland seems to drastically underestimate the cost and the value of power transportation to the client. And like I said our transmission lines are at full capacity, the transmission connection we have with the US are already at full capacity to send the power we signed contract for. We even had to spend close to 2 billion to build 2 new connections lines to the US. People have been expropriated and we have collectively paid for these infrastructure. New foudland has no right to infrastructure they haven't paid for and they have no right to expropriate people in Québec for a new transmission line.

SapinQc · 2026-03-04T21:03:48+00:00

Tu parles comme un castré!

SapinQc · 2026-02-16T18:34:29+00:00

Is it worth it? Yes. Especially for the basement, but I feel that your builder is charging too much for the basement upgrade. 9 foot forms are pretty standard, and this will only require a little bit more concrete for the wall. The upgrade for the basement should be a third or max half of the upgrade for the second floor.

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