LES CONSEQUENCES POUR LE QUEBEC DU TRAITE DES EAUX LIMITROPHES : PLAN DE REGULATION DU LAC ONTARIO

Abstract

When the St. Lawrence Seaway and the control works at the Lake Ontario outlet were being developed, the International Joint Commission in virtue of the Boundary Waters Treaty established guidelines according to which the flow of Lake Ontario was to be regulated and set up a management agency called the International St. Lawrence River Board of Control which was to ensure that these guidelines would be followed.The author comments on the positive as well as the negative consequences of the implementation of the Lake Ontario regulation plan as far as Quebec interests are concerned, especially those related to riparians and to energy production. He also considers the consequences, in the future, of the increasing pressures aiming at a greater reduction of the fluctuation of the Great Lakes water levels.