A small community of 3,500 souls in Estrie has not sleeps since Hydro-Québec wants to come and plan her pylons in their country.
“When I open the curtains in the morning, I cry. All of a sudden, everything collapses, ”says wet eyes, the retiree Francine Laliberté, who lives in Dunham.
A stone’s throw from her, her husband, Jean-Luc Paré, also has wet eyes.
Francine Laliberté and Jean-Luc Paré live a nightmare. Their retired financial situation is likely to be weakened. Photo Francis character
“Hydro-Québec doesn’t care what people feel. The pylon will be maximum 75 or 100 meters. It’s very close, ”he says.
In mid-April, The newspaper told the story of a maple producer from Saint-Alban irritated to see new pylons who may remove cuts.
235 kilometers away, residents of Dunham also digest the new high -voltage line that the crown corporation wants to plant.
In the area, the ambition of the CEO of Hydro, Michael Sabia, to inject $ 110 billion in the next ten years to build 5,000 kilometers of transport is felt.
The electrical network is supplied with Estrie is 150 years old. He is aging.
The construction of the Brome and a new line will go forward in three years.
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Traced Supplied by Hydro-Québec
Near houses
The mayor of the place, Pierre Janecek, does not want to know anything about these metal monsters, which would come on 80% of his territory.
“Hydro will have to change his rifle. They will have to listen to citizens and mayors a little in Brome-Missisquoi, ”drops the first magistrate.
Talk to Eric Jacques, the professor who fears that one of the proposed routes goes to fifty feet from his home. “It’s an invasion,” he said.
“Will the water table be touched?” he wonders.
Above, George Lalonde shows us the plunging view from his veranda. “The only winners are Hydro-Québec,” he plague.
Éric Jacques badly grasps why pylons may pass so close to his house, when there are a number of spaces around. Photo Francis character
Pruits run along several local roads. Photo Francis character
George Lalonde left Montreal about forty years ago for more tranquility. Photo Francis character
A few streets away, Nathalie Brault is also devastated to see these frames appear one day in her courtyard, not far from her swimming pool.
“We are fighting against Goliath. I wake up at night, and I think about it, ”she says.
“Would you like it, Mr. Sabia (CEO of Hydro-Québec), a pylon stuck on your home?” wonders Nathalie Brault. Photo Francis character
It is the dream of three generations that is lost for Sarah Persons-Hodge. Photo Francis character
Further on, Sarah Persons-Hodge and her spouse, William Robinson, wonder if they will renovate the house as planned in the family fold since 1880.
“We are afraid of the depreciation of our property,” she sums up.
«At the end of your useful life»
At Hydro-Québec, it is specified that the construction of the bromine position and lines is necessary because the Estrie network “is maximum capacity”.
Major breakdowns, load load shedding, equipment breakdown … Important breakdowns have already taken place in December 2022 and 2023.
“The two traces of the study which cross the municipality of Dunham bypass the residential districts,” says the spokesperson for Hydro, Pascal Poinlane.
The Crown Company plans to optimize the routes if necessary to minimize the impact and offer compensation to the owners who will host future lines.
Brome post project and its line
- The 120 kV construction of a new position:
- The construction of a transport line at 120 kV, between the new position and the existing 120 kV lines;
- The dismantling of Sutton, Knowlton, Eastman posts and certain lines at 49 kV.
(Source: Hydro-Québec)
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