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The Interchurch Council on Hydropower (ICH) has launched an initiative called Friends of Hydro-Impacted Communities for the purpose of mitigating the harms caused to Indigenous communities’ lands, lives and livelihoods by the flooding of their homes and territories by massive … Continue reading Friends of Hydro Impacted Communities
Protect the PUB Coalition Website The Interchurch Council on Hydropower has joined with several other organizations to form the Coalition for an Independent Public Utilities Board in order to protect the PUB and the interests of Manitobans The PC government … Continue reading Protect the PUB – Oppose Bill 36
Manitoba Hydro has requested an interim hydro rate increase of 5% as of Jan. 1, 2022 to the Public Utilities Board (PUB). An increase of this size will have a huge impact on already massive hydro bills for northern customers … Continue reading Voice your Opinion
I knew you when I was young your pristine forests, my playground your sparkling clearwater lakes with calm depths and sandy beaches with haunting calls of loons as the sun is setting across the lake I knew your fast-flowing waters, … Continue reading Kikāwinaw (to Mother Earth)
absorbed in thought as I stand atop high limestone cliffs gazing across the divide at a shoreline that mirrors the one upon which I stand looking downward to the space beneath dry riverbed full of shrubs and willows struggling to … Continue reading Standing at the Edge of a Limestone Cliff
July 10, 2021 I want to continue my lament, mainly about Manitoba’s racist premier Pallister, but I needed to ‘take ten’ after I heard him ‘imply’ that Indigenous people “only destroy rather than build.” Those hunks of metal become meaningless … Continue reading Now we are the tāpānak
A Reflection on the Toppling of Statues July 7, 2021 I have just returned from a northern community which has been impacted by hydro development with the building of another dam in their area. People are grieving the loss of … Continue reading Sacred Sites
July 12, 2021 As the impoundment begins at another northern dam, I cannot help but express my despair and grief over the loss of more land and shoreline along those lakes and rivers, as well as all the factors involved … Continue reading When Does Reconciliation Begin?
The Sturgeon Marking Project is an awareness campaign intended to bring attention to the impact of hydro generation at the other end of the line. Similar to storm drain marking projects in BC and ON, we believe that stencilling the … Continue reading Sturgeon Marking Project
UPDATED AS OF MAY 30, 2021 Many of you have heard the final licence was granted. This letter has been updated accordingly. Please continue to let our government know that this is not ok and not what we want. ORIGINAL POST – A lot of you are asking, “What can we do to help?” and often the answer to that question starts with simply learning more about where your electricity comes from, but right now a letter supporting the Open Letter from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation and Tataskweyak Cree Nation and asking them to refuse the Augmented Flow Program renewal will … Continue reading Support the Open Letter – Updated
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