Quebec's position with regard to its energy policy remains and will continue to be based on the production of electricity through hydroelectric power and wind power.

This regime has not evolved to suit the present multi-faceted role of the waterway and the many differing federal, provincial and municipal responsibilities for it. These responsibilities include the management of a complex water regime that ensures water for navigation, as well as allocating increasingly scarce water resources to many competing demands, and it include the provision of municipal and domestic water supplies.

safety devices fitted to jacks of hydraulic power circuits where these are used as devices to prevent falls.

safety devices fitted to jacks of hydraulic power circuits where these are used as devices to prevent falls;

In the case of EIB projects outside the EU, there is no shortage of guidelines and codes of conduct for international financial institutions. In addition to Parliament's reports on cooperation policy, the EIB can turn to the vast literature in the field, or indeed ratify existing codes such as the Ecuador principles for investment banks operating in developing countries, the UNEP guidelines and the proposed recommendations to be followed by the World Bank in relation to the extractive industries and dams (a particularly sensitive point for a bank which publicises its commitment to renewable energy: hydraulic energy projects can spell eco ...[+++]logical disaster!)

Because I wonder, for example, how the Quebec energy sector, which produces 95 percent of its power by hydraulic means, will be able to obtain funding out of that $1 billion.