The Plan Nord Building Northern Québec Together

The Project of a Generation

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Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum- February 23rd, 2012

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An overview

•  Québec the largest province in Canada •  Area 1.6 million km2

•  7x size of the UK •  Population: 8 million •  23% of Canadian population

Plan Nord : The territory

North of 49th parallel

•  72% of Québec’s geographic area

•  1.6% of population of

Québec

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The Plan Nord: A space to be developed

•  Huge potential for the Native and northern communities

•  32 communities in James Bay, Saguenay and Côte-Nord regions

•  Over 120 000 inhabitants

•  Four Aboriginal nations in 31 communities:

–  THE INUIT –  THE CREE –  THE INNU –  THE NASKAKPI

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The Plan Nord: An innovative approach based on partnership

•  The Plan Nord: result of over 60 meetings involving 450 people who agreed on the approach –  Representatives from the government, communities,

private sector, institutional sector and environmental sector

•  The Plan Nord is a project that will span 25 years and comprise five five-year action plans

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The Plan Nord: The vision

An exemplary sustainable development project that integrates energy, mining, forest, bio-food, tourism and transportation development, the development of wildlife, environmental protection and the preservation of biodiversity. It will foster development for the benefit of the communities concerned and Québec as a whole, in a spirit of respect for cultures and identities.

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The Plan Nord: The objectives

•  To ensure socially responsible, sustainable development, the Plan Nord will seek to:

1.  ensure community well-being and development

2.  harness Northern Québec’s enormous economic potential

3.  make Northern Québec accessible

4.  protect the environment

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Harness Northern Québec’s enormous economic potential

•  The territory that the Plan Nord covers has outstanding potential for development in the following sectors: –  energy –  mining –  forestry

•  The development of Northern Québec will engender investment, jobs and other benefits in other regions.

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– wildlife –  tourism – bio-food

The Plan Nord: 3 500 MW of renewable energy

•  3 000 MW of hydroelectricity •  300 MW of wind power •  200 MW from other renewable

sources ─  Underwater generators

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─  25 billion $ CAD in investments The plan reflects our determination to make Québec the world leader in clean energy

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Mining development is central to the Plan Nord

•  More than twenty new projects will be under development in the territory that the Plan Nord covers in the coming years, which will generate over 10 billion $ CAD in investments and create 4 000 jobs.

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Raglan Mine

Mining development is central to the Plan Nord

The territory that the Plan Nord covers produces all of Québec’s:

-  Nickel, -  Cobalt -  Platinum group metals -  Zinc -  Iron ore -  Ilmenite

Significant portion: -  Gold -  Lithium -  Vanadium -  Rare-earth

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A crucial forest environment

•  Harvesting of the boreal forest north of 49th parallel accounts for over 50% of wood harvested in Québec and creates 15 000 jobs.

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Make Northern Québec accessible

•  Integrated development of the transportation network

•  Establishment of partnerships with investors that require transportation infrastructure

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Make Northern Québec accessible

•  Integrated development must include an array of infrastructure: –  roads –  a landing strip –  electricity –  a railway and transfer station –  a sea port and transfer station

and storage facility.

•  Objective: Satisfy the needs of several users to reduce their footprint in the territory.

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Make Northern Québec accessible

•  Projects are already under way or impending:

–  upgrading of northern airports

–  construction or rebuilding of four major roads:

–  example of the Monts Otish road

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Protect the environment

•  A fragile, changing territory –  Unique biodiversity: highly

varied wildlife and intact forests

–  Perceptible climate change

•  Each development project will hinge on principles of sustainable development

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Two key commitments •  50% of the territory that the Plan Nord covers will be

devoted to purposes other than industrial ones, environmental protection and safeguarding biodiversity –  The government will adopt legislation following

consultations

•  Round out the network of protected areas to reach target of 20% by 2020

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Protect the environment

A government corporation to carry out an ambitious plan

•  Establishment of the Société du Plan Nord, with a mandate, in particular, to: –  coordinate public investment in strategic infrastructure and

in the social sector –  coordinate the implementation of projects included in the

first five-year action plan –  negotiate financing packages in respect of the projects for

which it is responsible –  offer local and Aboriginal communities guidance and

support to carry out their own community and social development projects.

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The Plan Nord financial framework

•  Establishment of the Fonds du Plan Nord, announced in the 2011-2012 Budget

•  Realization of the first five-year action plan: investments totalling 2.1 billion $ CAD –  1.2 billion $ CAD for infrastructure –  382 million $ CAD for socioeconomic measures –  52 million $ CAD for the operating budget of the Société du

Plan Nord and investment prospecting –  500 million $ CAD allocated to Investissement Québec for

equity participations

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Benefits for all Quebecers

•  Over the next 25 years, the Plan Nord will engender the following benefits:

–  a minimum of 80 billion $ CAD in private and public investments and 14 billion $ CAD in tax revenues for the government

–  20 000 jobs, on average, created or maintained each year, equivalent to 500 000 man-years

–  the investments will add 162 billion $ CAD to Québec’s GDP, a significant impact.

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For more information

Learn more at :

plannord.gouv.qc.ca/english/

Development of infrastructure projects of The Plan Nord, Montreal, April 4-5th 2012 :

serieplannord.com