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By Staff Writers, Telesur
Telesur
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2014

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois speaking to the press during the 2012 student protests in Quebec (Photo: AFP)

One French Canadian author gives Quebec’s anti-pipeline movement a much-needed financial and motivational boost. Quebec author Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois has announced that he will donate all US$22,000 he received in prize money recently to an anti-pipeline citizen's group.

The activist and non-fiction writer won the Governor General's Award last week for French-language non-fiction. The contest is a prestigious Canadian award that marks distinction in a number of fields.

Appearing on a popular television program Sunday, Nadeau-Dubois announced that he would donate all of his winnings to grassroots resistance movements that oppose the controversial Energy-East pipeline project. The plans say oil will be carried from the tar sands in the western province of Alberta across the country, passing through Quebec, to the east-coast province of New Brunswick.

Transcanada —the company behind the Energy-East pipeline and the controversial Keystone XL pipeline— filed for a regulatory approval of the project in October, but opposition to it is growing across the country.

“At this time, in Quebec, there are very, very powerful interests that wish to transform our country into a highway for the export of oil from Alberta’s tar sands,” said the 24-year-old author as he made the announcement. “I decided to use it as an occasion to concretely help the citizens that are defending our collective interests today in Quebec.”

While on the show, the young author also made an appeal to the public to match his donation through a crowd-funding page that was also launched Sunday. By Wednesday morning, the campaign had raised almost US$290,000.

The US$12 billion pipeline is expected to be 3,000 miles long, with the capacity to carry 1.1 million barrels of crude oil a day.

Environmentalists are concerned about the project, as it would cross sensitive ecosystems, including two rivers in Quebec, the Outaouais and the St. Lawrence.

The Energy East pipeline could also generate up to 32 million metric tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions a year, according to a report by the Pembina Institute,

Nadeau-Dubois’ winning book “Tenir Tête” (Stand Up), chronicles the Quebec student protests in 2012 against tuition fee hikes. 

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