ICH was busy this summer. In July, we hosted a Kohkoms’ Healing Gathering at the Grand Rapids Culture Camp. The purpose of this event was for Kohkoms from various hydro-affected communities, to get together, share their experiences, build solidarity, and … Continue reading ICH Current Projects
Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 30, 2017 By Will Braun
The Keeyask dam is springing leaks, and the possibility of further cost overruns and delays, as recently reported, is just the start. Continue reading “Gigawatt Glut”
What about aboriginal partners?
Winnipeg Free Press, March 20, 2017
By Will Braun
Nearly 20 years ago, Manitoba Hydro began working toward the two largest aboriginal business ventures in the history of the province. Ultimately, five First Nations became partners in supposedly lucrative multi-billio- dollar dams. Chiefs spoke about prosperous futures. Hydro spoke proudly about the partnerships. Continue reading “Cree fortunes hitched to Hydro wagon”
When the water goes up behind the Keeyask dam, one family will lose more than any other. Go up the Nelson River to the Keeyask site with members of the Kitchekeesik family. And visit the remains of a relocated community … Continue reading New Short Doc
Manitoba Hydro needs to ignore the past and become an innovator
Winnipeg Free Press, Oct 26, 2016 By Will Braun
Manitoba Hydro’s largest customer has written Hydro out of its future, and that could spell problems for Manitobans down the line. Xcel Energy’s 15-year plan states the Minneapolis-based utility intends to drop 850 megawatts’ worth of hydro import contracts when they expire in 2025, filling the gap with other resources. Continue reading “Export doors close for Hydro”
By Steve Ducharme, President, South Indian Lake Fishermen’s Association
Winnipeg Free Press, posted April 15, 2016
The commercial whitefish fishery at South Indian Lake was once the second largest in Manitoba, and the lifeblood of our proud, self-reliant community. Now it is mostly gone. Most of this collapse has happened since 1999, when the NDP took power, and under the oversight and management of the province. Continue reading “Death of a fishery”
Former Manitoba Hydro transmission engineer Dennis Woodford suggests Manitobans might be best off if the Bipole III and Keeyask projects were put on hold to thoroughly review the prudence of completing them. Below is his article from the April 5, 2016 Winnipeg Free Press. Continue reading “The Multi-Billion Dollar Question Candidates Are Not Debating”
From Jan 6, 2016 Winnipeg Free Press Hydro’s outlook still unsettled By Will Braun Winnipeg Free Press, Jan 6, 2016 The provincial government has weathered the major storms of scrutiny created by its Manitoba Hydro-related decisions in recent years, but it still faces three awkward dilemmas in 2016. First, a survey of the current situation. Despite sustained opposition to the $4.6-billion Bipole III transmission project, the government wavered not. And by the time the April election is done, Hydro will have spent about $2 billion on the project, so even if there is a change in government, a change … Continue reading Free Press opinion piece
For an abbreviated visual version of Power North see the Power North Proposal Graphic More and more non-Indigenous Canadians feel a need for reconciliation with Indigenous people. They believe there is a need to make things right, to live together in … Continue reading Power North: Positive Action Proposal
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We are deeply grateful to the church bodies that so generously support this work both financially and in spirit. They are the ones who make this work of reconciliation possible. They include: Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Evangelical Lutheran Church in … Continue reading Thanks to churches
