Blue Box Seminar Series

Departments of Geography and Political Science Present

Green Hydrogen Projects and their Implications

Éric Pineault, UQAM

Green hydrogen as a new extractivism?
Éric Pineault is a professor at the Environmental Sciences Institute and Sociology Department of UQAM.
This presentation examines green hydrogen projects in Québec and the development of hydrogen-based infrastructures worldwide. What is the political economy and ecology behind this push for hydrogen production? How intertwined with fossil capital is the push to develop green hydrogen production ? What forms of extractivism are tied to green and not so green hydrogen production? 

Dr. Camille Ouellet Dallaire, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.

Gender equality in Wind-to-Hydrogen projects: The Ultimate Hide-and-Seek Champion.
Dr. Camille Ouellet Dallaire is an assistant professor and program chair of Environment and Sustainability at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
This presentation will focus on wind-to-hydrogen in Newfoundland and the more than 2000 wind turbines that are moving through the NL provincial environmental assessment process. A key question is who will benefit from these projects, beyond shareholders. I will present the current state of wind-to-hydrogen on the island with a cumulative assessment lens and draw from critical geography to investigate how gender equality is and is not presented.

When: November 29, 2024, 3-4:30 p.m.

Where: SN 2025