ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Quebec's present and predicted bilateral environmental relationship with southern neighbor. Environmental issues are of lower priority and saliency among Quebeckers than among New Englanders and New Yorkers. In the quantitative sense, water differences between the United States and Quebec arise in two areas the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence and Champlain-Richelieu systems. The Quebec-United States environmental disputes or differences are not inherently different from those found elsewhere along the lengthy Canadian-US border, with the exception of the dry prairies where water quantity takes on such a high degree of importance. Hydroelectricity presents a somewhat different picture. High water in the lakes system favors hydropower generation, and Canada is more dependent on hydropower generated in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system than is the United States. The possible impact of a rigorous international acid rain or air quality agreement on Quebec's own future SO2 emissions and thus on the future economic viability of the province's metalsmelting industry.
