Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Quebec pulp and paper industry fell by more than 30 percent from 1990 to 2006. We use an energy demand model to analyze the contributions to this decrease of energy prices, product mix, technological change, and biomass use. The product mix is made of pulp,...

The work of Boadway and Hayashi (2001) and Smart (2007) tends to confirm the hypothesis that provinces who are the beneficiaries of equalization payments adopt strategic behaviours that reduce their tax capacity and thus increase these payments. In this study, we analyze the impact that a new...

Canada has ratified the Kyoto Protocol while the United States has not; and Canadian industrial producers have expressed their concern with respect to the negative impact of this on competitiveness. To alleviate this concern, the Government of Canada is proposing to cap the price of greenhouse...

While the price of elasticity is higher in the North-Eastern United States than in the Quebec industrial market, the Quebec government is maintaining its traditional policy of promoting the establishment of electricity-intensive industries by providing them with electricity at a price below the...

Although the increase in future demand for electricity is expected to be smaller than that in recent years, Hydro-Quebec has undertaken to develop certain projects in anticipation of the expected future demand. Among these projects is the Great Whale project. Environmental concerns, the presence...

Worldwide the electricity industry is undergoing a substantial process of restructuring. The most significant aspect of this process is the introduction of competition in the production sector. The principal objective is cost reduction, which should eventually lead to lower electricity prices....