Voices of Resistance
North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
Protecting rivers and their communities by resisting megadams and their transmission corridors
Join us for NAMRA’s Webinar:
Voices of the Resistance
Wednesday, April 7 at 7 pm ET
Registration Required
Hear Indigenous leaders affected by large hydro dams discuss the history and the impacts of Canadian hydropower on their lands and peoples
Webinar 2
Voices of the Resistance: First Nations impacted by hydro-dams and their transmission corridors discuss the environmental racism of Canadian hydropower exports to the U.S.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021, from 7-8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
This webinar will explain the stark reality behind the false claims that hydropower is a climate solution and how Americans are being subjected to an expensive greenwashing campaign. Leaders of First Nations impacted by large dams will discuss how hydro corporations are making billions of dollars in profits at the expense of Indigenous peoples and their ancestral lands. Learn more about the recently announced alliance between First Nations in Canada and the U.S. to oppose Hydro-Quebec and the Canadian hydropower industry.
In the words of Lucien Wabanonik of the Indigenous Anishnabeg tribe in modern-day Quebec, Hydro-Quebec
“is currently operating 33 hydroelectric plants, 130 dams and dykes, flooding 2.6 million acres, and maintaining tens of thousands of kilometers of transmission and distribution lines and roads on our ancestral territories. It doesn’t rightfully own 36% of its total installed electrical capacity, yet we’ve never been compensated for this massive taking, forced to live as second-rate citizens on our own unceded land, and now HQ wants to export this power to Massachusetts.”
Our webinar will feature:
- Lucien Wabanonik, Elected Councilor with Lac Simon’s Band Council in Quebec: Updates on the joint effort between First Nations in Canada and the U.S. to oppose Hydro-Quebec and destructive Canadian hydropower exports.
- Adam Jourdain, President of Mamo Aki, a partnership for information sharing relating to social, environmental, and economic best practices between First Nations, companies, and governments: How First Nations have been affected by extractive energy development.
- Chief Roland Willson, Chief of the West Moberly Lake First Nations located in North-Eastern British Columbia, currently finishing his 7th consecutive elected term: Updates on the destructive Site C megadam and the impacts this project is having on treaties, communities, and the environment.