Création d'un nouveau parc national au Québec

[jesseps]

Dans le coin d'Ouje-Bougoumou, y a un petit secret qui protège super bien les milieux naturels : ça s'appelle les mouches noires

 

BAHAHAHA... now that made me laugh. Natures own bodyguard.

[jesseps]

The province has set the ambitious target of increasing its protected areas, where nature is left alone and development is not permitted, to 12 per cent of Quebec’s territory by 2015 from 8.16 per cent, and ultimately wants to sell carbon credits tied to its protected areas.

 

Premier Jean Charest and other provincial and state leaders have been pressing for a system of cap and trade, setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions by industries, and requiring them to buy carbon credits if they cannot meet those limits.

 

Carbon credits would be traded on a proposed Montreal Carbon Exchange.

 

“We have had many offers,” said Quebec Environment Minister Pierre Arcand, adding the potential from selling carbon credits tied to Quebec’s protected areas is “interesting.”

 

Quebec now has 135,000 square kilometres of protected areas.

 

The expansion plan would increase nature preserves in the province to about 200,000 square kilometres, an area equal in size to the U.S. states of Maryland, New York and Massachusetts combined, Arcand said.

 

Quebec wants to set aside 10 per cent of the estuary of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a protected marine area, and a minimum of 12 per cent in the Ungava Peninsula, in consultation with aboriginal communities living there.

 

In announcing Quebec’s Plan Nord last week, Charest set a goal of designating 50 per cent of the territory north of the 49th parallel as protected areas, but that will take time, Arcand said.

 

Protected areas in the Plan Nord zone would be designated because of the animal and plant species found there, not because of an absence of mineral or other resources, the minister added.

 

In Quebec’s central zone, between the Plan Nord area and populated areas to the south, the goal is to designate 12 per cent, or 10,000 square kilometres of the territory, as protected areas, with attention to saving the habitats of the wood caribou and other endangered species.

 

Arcand said designated protected areas south of the St. Lawrence are complicated by private ownership and widespread human activity, but he hopes to work with people in the regions and conservation groups.

 

(Courtesy of The Montreal Gazette)

[monctezuma]

J'ai trouvé cette carte fort intéressante du Plan Nord qui illustre les autorisation minières, les autorisations de coupe de bois, les aires protégées, etc. :

 

 

Hi-res :

 

http://www.snapqc.org/files/ss-images/PN%20-%20Usages%20-%20avec%20AP%20%282008-12-04%29.jpg

[Aurélien]

Attends menute là... toutes ces mines sont déjà exploitées?????

[jesseps]

Attends menute là... toutes ces mines sont déjà exploitées?????

 

Probably. Some of those mines probably have been uses years ago and stopped operating or are operating right now. Quebec has a nice amount of Gold, Lithium (not as much as thought before, but still a nice amount) and Graphite (one of the largest deposits in the world). Plus Quebec has a large amount of aluminous clay and we are the first people in the world to find a way to refine it, into aluminum and what not.

 

Old map, looks like it is from 1995.

Modifié 20 mai 2011 par jesseps