Lower Churchill River Project
Author : Labrador Institute of Northern Studies
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
ISBN :
Author : Labrador Institute of Northern Studies
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Environment Canada. Joint Review Panel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Electric power production
ISBN : 9781100189789
Nalcor Energy (Nalcor) proposed to develop two hydroelectric generation facilities, including construction of associated dams and reservoirs, on the lower Churchill River in central Labrador. The generation facilities would have a combined capacity of 3,074 megawatts (MW) with one facility located at Gull Island (2,250 MW) and one at Muskrat Falls (824 MW). The Project also included transmission lines between Muskrat Falls and Gull Island and between Gull Island and the existing Churchill Falls facility. Additional facilities associated with the Project would include access roads, temporary bridges, construction camps, borrow pits and quarry sites, diversion facilities and spoil areas. This report presents the results of the Joint Review Panel's (the Panel) examination of the potential environmental effects of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project (the Project) proposed by Nalcor. The Panel is satisfied that it has complied with its Terms of Reference and has gathered sufficient information to form conclusions on the potential environmental effects of the Project, and, where appropriate, to make recommendations regarding management of those effects, should the Project proceed.--Document.
Author : Stephen Crocker
Publisher : Social and Economic Papers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781894725941
"For almost a decade now, the 13 billion dollar Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been a central defining problem in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. As the essays collected in Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation show, the dam's promise of clean hydro-power has been accompanied by an interconnected assemblage of crises linking together the threat of methylmercury poisoning with catastrophic flooding and cultural genocide for people living near the dam, and unmanageable public debt, suppression of alternative energy and threats to affordable domestic heat and electricity for everyone else. Its planning and development have involved the weakening of public regulatory bodies and the creation of a more privatized and less publicly accountable crown corporation overseeing the operation. Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused. It covers issues including Indigenous resistance to the dam; the politics and economics of the project; the role of journalism and social media in covering the event; controversy about the geophysical stability of the dam and interviews people living under threat of flooding and methylmercury poisoning downstream. The volume also contains original artwork and photography about the dam and fictional prose about life in the area around the Falls. Muskrat Falls will be of interest to local readers trying to understand how the dam will change life in the province and to anyone trying to understand and respond to any of the very many other similar, crisis-ridden energy and infrastructure projects being built around the world now. The book provides a rich case study of a crisis for scholars and students interested in areas such as energy studies, environmental humanities, Indigenous studies, critical infrastructure studies, and Canadian studies."--
Author : P. G. Lenton
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Electric lines
ISBN :
Nalcor Energy (Nalcor) proposed to develop two hydroelectric generation facilities, including construction of associated dams and reservoirs, on the lower Churchill River in central Labrador. The generation facilities would have a combined capacity of 3,074 megawatts (MW) with one facility located at Gull Island (2,250 MW) and one at Muskrat Falls (824 MW). The Project also included transmission lines between Muskrat Falls and Gull Island and between Gull Island and the existing Churchill Falls facility. Additional facilities associated with the Project would include access roads, temporary bridges, construction camps, borrow pits and quarry sites, diversion facilities and spoil areas. This report presents the results of the Joint Review Panel's (the Panel) examination of the potential environmental effects of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project (the Project) proposed by Nalcor. The Panel is satisfied that it has complied with its Terms of Reference and has gathered sufficient information to form conclusions on the potential environmental effects of the Project, and, where appropriate, to make recommendations regarding management of those effects, should the Project proceed.--Document.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
"This report results from a review by an Environmental Assessment Panel of a proposal to build power generating stations on the Lower Churchill River and associated transmission lines across Newfoundland and Labrador"--Exec. Summary.
Author : Canada. Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Electric lines
ISBN : 9780662510949
Report of a review of a proposal to build power generating stations on the Lower Churchill river and associated transmission lines across Newfoundland and Labrador.
Author : Karl Froschauer
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0774840668
During the past fifty years, Canadians have seen many of their white-water rivers dammed or diverted to generate electricity primarily for industry and export. The rush to build dams increased utility debts, produced adverse consequences for the environment and local communities, and ultimately resulted in the layoff of 25,000 employees. White Gold looks at what went wrong with hydro development, with the predicted industrial transformation, with the timing and magnitude of projects, and with national and regional initiatives to link these major projects to a trans-Canada power grid.
Author : Gerald M. Sider
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0822377365
Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades. Autonomy and dignity within Native communities have eroded as individuals have been deprived of their livelihoods and treated by the state and corporations as if they were disposable. Yet Native peoples' possession of valuable resources provides them with some income and power to negotiate with state and business interests. Sider's assessment of the health of Native communities in the Canadian province of Labrador is filled with potentially useful findings for Native peoples there and elsewhere. While harrowing, his account also suggests hope, which he finds in the expressiveness and power of Native peoples to struggle for a better tomorrow within and against domination.
Author : Philip Smith
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Centrales hydro-électriques
ISBN : 9780771081842
An account of the project including the historical, political and construction aspects.