Civic and Philanthropic Activities
- Roy Dupuis is co-founder and president of the Rivers Foundation (Fondation Rivières), an ecological organisation that protects the rivers of Quebec and their natural and cultural habitats from small hydroelectric dam projects and other environmental and economic threats, and to encourage, through education, the development of alternative energy sources.
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