The interjurisdictional Ottawa River basin: changing the rules
The Ottawa River is Canadian history at a familiar scale. It has served, progressively, the course of exploration, the fur trade, defence preparedness, the timber industry, and the electrical power needs of a modern society. But today's needs are more complex than those of 30 or 300 years ago. The pollutin and flooding crises experienced along the lower Ottawa and at Montreal in the past decade have finally and dramatically illustrated that the river can no longer be left to those sectors which established early control over its regime. The struggle currently underway to reestablish a balance among competing interests is made more challenging by the divisive inclinations of two founding cultures and three sovereign governments
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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Minneapolis, Minn. (EUA)
1981
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| Subjects: | ASPECTOS INSTITUCIONALES, CUENCA RIO OTAWA, CANADA, |
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| Summary: | The Ottawa River is Canadian history at a familiar scale. It has served, progressively, the course of exploration, the fur trade, defence preparedness, the timber industry, and the electrical power needs of a modern society. But today's needs are more complex than those of 30 or 300 years ago. The pollutin and flooding crises experienced along the lower Ottawa and at Montreal in the past decade have finally and dramatically illustrated that the river can no longer be left to those sectors which established early control over its regime. The struggle currently underway to reestablish a balance among competing interests is made more challenging by the divisive inclinations of two founding cultures and three sovereign governments |
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