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The Société d'énergie de la Baie James is the company in charge of building the hydroelectric development known as the James Bay Project in northern Quebec. It was established in December 1971 by the Société de développement de la Baie James (SDBJ), a Crown corporation of the province of Quebec and became a wholly owned subsididiary of Hydro-Québec in 1978.
The spillway of the Robert-Bourassa Dam (formerly La Grande-2) The James Bay Project (French: projet de la Baie-James) refers to the construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec, Canada by state-owned utility Hydro-Québec, and the diversion of neighbouring rivers into the La Grande watershed.
James Michael Bay [1] (born 4 September 1990) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2014, he released his single " Hold Back the River ", which was certified platinum, before releasing his debut studio album Chaos and the Calm (2015).
The governments of Canada and Quebec and representatives from each of the Cree villages and most of the Inuit villages signed the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement on November 11, 1975. The Agreement offered, for the first time, a written contract which explicitly presented the rights of indigenous people.
It was also given the mandate to export power and to work in any energy-related field. [19] In 1986 the Quebec – New England Transmission began bringing power from the James Bay Project 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) south to the Boston area. Phase II of the James Bay Project started in 1987 and took nine
James Bay is important in the history of Canada as one of the most hospitable parts of the Hudson Bay region, although it has had a low human population. It was an area of importance to the Hudson's Bay Company and British expansion into Canada .
The turbines were built by two partners of James Bay Energy (SEBJ). Units 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14 and 16 were built by Marine Industries Limited (MIL), while units 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 15 were built by Canadian General Electric (alternators) and Dominion Engineering Works (turbines). The two groups have somewhat different characteristics.
The James Bay Project is Quebec's largest generation complex, with an installed capacity of 16,527 megawatt of power, approximately 40% of the province's peak load. Hydro-Québec , the government-owned public utility is the main power generator in the province with 59 hydroelectric facilities located across the province, for a total installed ...