Hydro Quebec - Moving to improve Pulp and Paper sector...

It is really hard to keep up with Hydro Quebec - probably because we have and are doing nothing to use energy for economic growth.

This News Release affects the Pulp and Paper sector which - as in Newfoundland and Labrador - is important to Quebec.

Attention News Editors:
Hydro-Québec awards ERCO Worldwide $2.5 million for energy efficiency projects

MONTREAL, Jan. 16 /CNW Telbec/ - Under its energy efficiency programs for
large-power customers, Hydro-Québec will provide ERCO Worldwide, a division of
Superior Plus LP, with $2.5 million in financial assistance for 50 energy
efficiency projects.
These projects are designed to improve the energy efficiency of the
electrolysis process used in the production of sodium chlorate. Sodium
chlorate is an industrial salt used to produce chlorine dioxide, the key
ingredient in an environmentally preferred pulp bleaching process. The
electrolytic cells now in use will be replaced with new high-performance cells
to reduce electricity consumption. The projected power savings for the
50 projects will amount to 50 GWh per year, the equivalent of the average
annual consumption of about 3,000 Québec households. In terms of greenhouse
gases, these savings will represent the equivalent of 17,500 tonnes of CO2 per
year.
ERCO Worldwide is a major producer of sodium chlorate for the North
American pulp and paper industry and a world leader in chlorine dioxide
generator technology. In addition, ERCO's Buckingham plant produces sodium
chlorite for water treatment and food processing markets throughout North
America.
Hydro-Québec plans to invest $1.3 billion by 2010 with a view to reaching
annual electricity savings of 4.7 TWh as targeted in its Energy Efficiency
Plan.


Well Stephenville Grand Falls and Corner Brook - have a real look at what that Crown Corporation is doing for Quebec's Industrial Sector.