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North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
Protecting rivers and their communities by resisting megadams and their transmission corridors
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  • Canadian Hydropower Impacts
    • What is Hydropower?
    • Climate Impacts
      • Greenhouse Gases
    • Cumulative impacts on river systems, climate & forests
    • Ecosystem impacts
    • Indigenous rights
      • Innu Nation of Labrador sues Hydro-Quebec for $4 B in hydro damage
      • Five First Nations oppose hydro exports to U.S.
      • Five First Nations in Quebec & Innu of Labrador oppose hydro exports
      • Pessamit Innu First Nation opposes Northern Pass transmission corridor
      • End of an era: remove dams & begin truth & reconciliation
    • Methylmercury Poisoning
    • Water Cycles
    • Hydropower is not renewable or clean energy
      • The dark side of Canadian hydropower exposed in U.S. International Trade Commission investigation
        • ITC investigation participants
        • Tataskweyak Cree Nation submittal to the ITC
        • Not renewable or clean energy
    • Canadian government subsidies
  • New Canadian Megadams
    • British Columbia – Site C
    • Quebec – Romaine River
    • Labrador – Muskrat Falls Project
      • Labrador – Muskrat Falls: Commission of Inquiry
        • Muskrat Falls Inquiry
    • Labrador – Gull Island/Grand River
  • Transmission Corridors
    • Maine NECEC – CMP Corridor
      • Report: NECEC and CHPE transmission corridors tied to potential for more dam construction
    • New York: TDI – CHPE Corridor
      • Notice of Violations of environmental laws: CHPE & endangered sturgeon in Hudson River
      • CHPE corridor: regulatory documents
    • Vermont: TDI – NECPL Corridor
    • New Hampshire Granite State Power Link (currently on hold)
    • Vermont Green Line – on hold
    • New York Empire State Connector
    • Canada Atlantic Link
    • New Hampshire: Northern Pass (Rejected)
  • Corporate Profits
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  • Resources
    • 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower Projects are a Climate Disaster
    • Myth of clean and renewable hydropower
    • Greenwashing hydropower
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  • Webinars & Events
    • Webinars
      • Three-part webinar series (2021): What’s new in the campaign to save rivers and their communities?
      • 2020: Impacts of Canadian hydropower on Indigenous communities in Canada and on Maine’s environment: Sierra Club
      • 2020: The Deals Made, The Money involved and the lack of transparency in pursuit of big hydro: Sierra Club
      • 2020: Stop the Gull Island Megadam
      • 2020: Site C Megadam – Webinar
      • New York’s CHPE/TDI corridor: social justice, climate, and New York’s pursuit of Canadian hydroelectricity – 3 parts
      • Earth Day 2020
    • In-person events
      • 2020 51st National Day of Mourning, Plymouth MA
      • 2020 & 2019 Conference of Northeastern Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
        • 2019 Conference of Northeastern Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
      • 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
        • Slide Presentations from 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
      • 2019: Ottawa: Action at International Coalition on Large Dams Annual Meeting
      • Indigenous Land and Water Defenders Arrive in Ottawa to Demand End to Large Hydro Dams
      • 2019 Grand Riverkeeper & Labrador Land Protectors Speaking Tour Spring 2019

Archives & Events

Community Conversations with the Sierra Club Maine

Earth Day 2020

2019 Megadams = Megadamage Speaking Tour

2019 Day of Mourning in Plymouth, MA

Conference of Northeastern U.S. Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers

International Coalition on Large Dams

Indigenous Land & Water Defenders Arrive in Ottawa to Demand End to Large Hydro Dams

Grand Riverkeeper and Labrador Land Protectors Speaking Tour Spring 2019

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Breaking News & Updates

September 29, 2021 – Stop New England’s Greenwashing of Hydropower webinar at 6:30 pm ET

September 10, 2021 – Send a message to New York Governor Hochul: To power NYC, bring in-state solar & wind, not Canadian hydropower

September 8, 2021 – Give rivers their rights, activists tell IUCN World Conservation Congress

September 3, 2021 – NAMRA Fall 2021 Newsletter

August 31, 2021 – Save the World’s Rivers et al. Submit Comments and Publications to IPCC about Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Dams/Reservoirs

August 26, 2021 – Hydropower dams are not the solution to the climate crisis

August 13, 2021 – Maine considers pulling CMP corridor’s permit after court ruling puts route at risk

August 10, 2021 – Judge rules that Maine had no authority to lease public land for CMP corridor

August 9, 2021 – Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’

August 6, 2021 – California shuts down major hydroelectric plant amid record-low water levels at Lake Oroville

August 5, 2021 – The dirty dam truth

August 3, 2021 – The environmental racism of Site C

July 29, 2021 – Trudeau sinks billions into N.L.’s troubled Muskrat Falls megaproject

July 28, 2021 – Video Shows Salmon With Lesions, Fungus As Rivers Hit Lethal Temperatures

July 23, 2021 – The Silence of the Dams: Canada’s Faux-Green Genocide

July 21, 2021 – First Nation’s court victory sets precedent for equitable compensation

July 19, 2021 – Two dams in China’s Inner Mongolia collapse after torrential rain

July 12, 2021 – Hudson Riverkeeper pens letter to Governor Cuomo opposing the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) hydropower transmission corridor

July 11, 2021 – Our leaders are assuming too much, too fast on Gull Island

July 8, 2021 – Letter: Megadam hydro ‘not clean or renewable’

July 7, 2021 – Canadian tribes threaten to sue over transmission corridor

July 5, 2021 – Carbondale nonprofit notifies USFS of intent to sue over permit decision

SmugMug Gallery

Click here to view NAMRA’s SmugMug Gallery which contains photos, maps, and descriptions of major hydro-electric facilities in Canada, Indigenous and allied resistance, and NAMRA events.

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NAMRA is a broad-based ad hoc alliance of groups and individuals who care about rivers, communities and climate. We are pluralistic, a clearinghouse for information, and a forum for voices from various communities on the issue of megadams and energy policy impacts on rivers and human rights. 

NAMRA is a program of Save the World’s Rivers.

To learn more about NAMRA’s story, click here. 

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