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...take decades for scientists to determine whether whaling is harming a species. Moreover, no one yet knows how hunting interacts with other pressures that affect whale populations, including pollution and shipping traffic. Beluga whales that wash ashore at the confluence of Canada's St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers are often so loaded with toxic chemicals that they are treated as hazardous waste...
Aluminium comfortably skims tariff barriers because it is a low-cost producer, benefiting from Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity...
Last week the Cuban state shipping line announced the immediate start of a freight service with Canada. From Canada's Saguenay Shipping Co., which eliminated its Montreal-Santiago freight service a month ago, came hopeful word: "The whole picture is under review...
Power Wanted. Although it is already the world's biggest single aluminum producer, Alcan is strained to the limit to fill current orders from its big plants in Quebec's Saguenay Valley. Because of its cheap power supply, Alcan's prices are the world's lowest. The company's 1950 output of 378,000 tons was easily sold, and Britain has already contracted to buy nearly all the extra production the company can draw from its Quebec pot lines in the next three years. Said an Alcan official: "We're sold out unless...
...Making tourist trade the leading industry in Saguenay valley...