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 The definition of a resource regime is the way in which a resource is managed, through social and economic structures. It is a combination of property, disposition and use rights and of public policies, the prominent elements of which comprise specific aims with respect to protection and/or exploitation of the natural resource, intervention instruments, institutional actor arrangements, target-groups and the underlying policy rationale. There are four types of resource regimes: open access, common property, private property and state ownership. Within each regime there are social and economic advantages and disadvantages.
 * Resource Regimes: **

Encyclopedia of Earth on Open Access Resources
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Open_access_resources

 Up until Quebec colonized, the resource was common property which is  particular social arrangement regulating the preservation, maintenance, and consumption of a common-pool resource. Now, it is state owned. The state-owned power utility, Hydro Quebec, wanted the project to be taken up for meeting increasing domestic demands and for exports to the United States. Hydro-Quebec and the provincial government have always insisted that hydro-electric development is essential to Quebec’s economic and political future. According to their projections, the power generated by the Great Whale Complex would not only supply Quebec’s own needs but provide a significant export commodity when sold to the north-eastern states of the United States. They also suggest that hydro-electric power is environmentally preferable to alternative sources of electricity, such as fossil fuels or nuclear energy. Environmentalists disagree, and state that the damage that would arise form the project both environmental and social could be catastrophic and that the project itself makes uncertain economic sense.
 * Great Whale Project Resource Regimes **