Perspectives inuites sur le développement des énergies renouvelables au Nunavik : un levier vers l’autodétermination ?

• Published in: Espace populations sociétés
• Main Authors: Ève Harbour-Marsan, Frédéric Lasserre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2021
• Subjects: renewable energy; energy transition; Inuit; autonomy; self-determination; motivations; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Arctic; Nunavik; inuit; inuites
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/eps.10686; https://doaj.org/article/0606a073303945a09dc5105ddcd05c1b

The 14 Inuit communities of Nunavik (Quebec Arctic) are supplied with electricity from small diesel generating plants. These communities demonstrate a growing interest in the idea of developing renewable energy sources for their supply (wind, hydroelectricity, solar), with an environmental concern, of course, but also as an affirmation of their economic and political autonomy. These projects, however, generate lively debates within communities and met with resistance, both locally and at the level of regional and political institutions. How are these debates structured and what do they mean about local representations ?