Word: quebecers
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Thousands of caribou drown in the Quebec wilderness...
...herd pushes its way from Labrador to winter grazing lands near Hudson Bay. This year many of the animals did not make it. At least 9,000 of them, and perhaps twice that number, drowned last week at two swollen river crossings in the remote wilderness of northern Quebec...
...caribou were overwhelmed by rushing water, bloated carcasses piled atop one another. A sizable number of animals were swept over a waterfall and drowned. Some environmentalists called the deaths "a major catastrophe." The question remained: Why had the rivers risen to deadly levels? Eskimo leaders and others blamed Hydro-Quebec, the province's government-owned utility. They charged that it had allowed too much water to spill over the dam that controls the flow of the two rivers. The Eskimos, or Innuit, as they are called in Canada, use the meat of the free-roaming caribou for food...
...Hydro-Quebec said the river conditions resulted from the unusually heavy September rains in the region, and that the volume of river flow had been reduced by the construction of its dam. "Our position," said Hydro-Quebec Spokesman Jean-Guy Ouimet, "is that we are spilling less water than nature would...
...early 1970s, the Innuit and the Cree Indians, who also dwell in the area, brought suit in Canadian courts to halt construction of the $15 billion James Bay hydroelectric-power project, charging that it would result in damage to their lands. In 1973 the Quebec Superior Court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. But after a one-week suspension, work on the immense undertaking was resumed when the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the earlier ruling...