Quebec Power Firm Steps Up Plant Security
Canada’s biggest electricity producer said Wednesday that it had stepped up security at its plants after a television report showed a journalist wandering unchallenged into the core of its largest generating station.
“What I saw is not acceptable. We must act quickly and properly,” said Andre Caille, president and chief executive of Hydro-Quebec, owned by Quebec province.
Hydro-Quebec said it had begun 24-hour patrols at most of its electric power stations and major transmission posts. It also halted public visits.
In a report broadcast Tuesday night, a team from Radio-Canada, the French-language service of CBC television, wandered around the Robert Bourassa plant in the remote James Bay area and at the Manic-5 plant on the Manicouagan River without being confronted by security or other personnel. The plants export power to the U.S.
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