DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2020. Don't believe that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/QuebecHydro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QuebecHydro</span></a> are for preserving nature, or the will of the voters, or respecting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> rights. They are all about making a buck!</p><p>Indigenous group launch $4B lawsuit over huge hydro power project</p><p>by Marc Montgomery, October 7, 2020</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Innu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Innu</span></a> say the project, begun in the late 1960’s and completed in the 1970’s, has flooded a vast area of ancestral lands causing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cultural</span></a> harm to their people.</p><p>"In a statement, Innu Grand Chief Etienne Rich said, 'Over 50 years ago, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HydroQu%C3%A9bec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HydroQuébec</span></a> and the provincial utility in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Newfoundland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newfoundland</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Labrador" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Labrador</span></a> now called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NalcorEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NalcorEnergy</span></a>, through the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation, stole our land and flooded it in order to take advantage of the enormous hydro potential of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChurchillFalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChurchillFalls</span></a>,' adding, 'This project was undertaken without consulting us and without our consent'.</p><p>"The Innu leaders said the flooded area of over 5,000 sq/km has covered traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BurialGrounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BurialGrounds</span></a>, hunting areas, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/caribou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>caribou</span></a> migration paths and habitat for wildlife they depend on. They also said there was no <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> assessment of the mega project, the second largest power generation project in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a>, and among the biggest in the world."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hydropower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hydropower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRCM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Avangrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Avangrid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CMP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Forests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveTheForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveMaineForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveMaineForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Innuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Innuit</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/10/07/indigenous-group-on-4b-lawsuit-hydro-quebec-over-huge-hydro-power-project/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rcinet.ca/en/2020/10/07/indige</span><span class="invisible">nous-group-on-4b-lawsuit-hydro-quebec-over-huge-hydro-power-project/</span></a></p>