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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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  • Impacts of Canadian Hydropower
    • What is Hydropower?
    • Climate Impacts
      • Greenhouse Gas Impacts
      • False claims by the Canadian hydropower industry about climate impacts
      • Cumulative climate impact of Canadian hydropower industry on forests and rivers
    • Human Rights Violations
    • Methylmercury Poisoning
    • Environment and Habitat
    • Corporate Profits
    • Destructive Transmission Corridors
    • Water Cycles
    • 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower Projects are a Climate Disaster
  • Canadian Megadams
    • Romaine River Dams, Quebec
    • Muskrat Falls Dam, Churchill River, Labrador
      • Government Inquiry on Muskrat Falls Project
    • Gull Island Project, Churchill River, Labrador
  • US Transmission Corridors for Canadian Hydro
    • New York: Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE)
      • CHPE Supporting Materials and Documents
    • Vermont: New England Clean Power Link
    • Maine: NECEC – CMP Corridor
    • Empire State Connector
    • Atlantic Link
    • Granite State Power Link (currently on hold)
    • Vermont Green Line (currently on hold)
    • New Hampshire: Northern Pass (Rejected)
  • Solutions
    • Resources on dams & hydropower
      • 2016 Pessamit Innu First Nation Petition to Intervene in the proposed Northern Pass project
      • Report: NECEC and CHPE transmission corridors tied to potential for more dam construction
      • Clean Hydropower Energy is a Myth
      • Muskrat Falls Inquiry
  • 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 clean or renewable energy
    • Canadian government subsidies for dirty, unethical hydropower
    • End of an era: remove dams & begin truth & reconciliation
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    • Blog
      • Human Rights & U.N. DRIP Petition
      • The Northern Pass and NECEC
    • Conference of Northeastern Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
    • Webinars
      • Sierra Club Community Conversations: Impacts of Canadian hydropower on Indigenous communities in Canada and on Maine’s environment
      • Sierra Club Community Conversations: The Deals Made, The Money involved and the Lack of Transparency in Pursuit of Big Hydro
      • Stop the Gull Island Megadam webinar
      • Three part webinar series on social justice, climate, and New York’s pursuit of Canadian hydroelectricity.
      • Earth Day 2020
    • 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
      • Slide Presentations from 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
    • Conference of Northeastern U.S. Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
    • International Coalition on Large Dams
    • Indigenous Land and Water Defenders Arrive in Ottawa to Demand End to Large Hydro Dams
    • Grand Riverkeeper & Labrador Land Protectors Speaking Tour Spring 2019
    • References

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 & Reports

October 27, 2020 – Sierra Club Community Conversations: The Deals Made, The Money involved and the Lack of Transparency in Pursuit of Big Hydro

September 22, 2020 – Sierra Club Community Conversations: Impacts of Canadian hydropower on Indigenous communities in Canada and on Maine’s environment

September 22, 2020 – Nearly 500 hydro-impacted community members and supporters in Canada and the United States urge U.S. officials to reject Canadian hydropower through online and written petition.

September 21, 2020 – NAMRA Press Conference at 2020 CONEG at 11 am EST

September 3, 2020 – Stop the Gull Island Megadam Webinar (09/03: Registration Required)

August 17, 2020 – Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe of Plymouth, MA calls on Governors Baker and Mills to reject Canadian hydroelectricity and the CMP Corridor 

August 3, 2020 – Over 500 hydro-impacted community members and supporters in Canada and the United States urge U.S. officials to reject Canadian hydropower through online and written petition.

July 30, 2020 – Part 3 of 3 part webinar series recording available

July 21, 2020 – Canadian Senator Mary Jane McCallum Presentation at 2019 Wa Ni Ska Tan Conference 

July 10, 2020 – NAMRA Statement on Governor Mills Announcement on CMP Hydropower Corridor  

July 10, 2020 – Dr. Bradford Hager, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences MIT Presentation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydro-Quebec’s “Clean” Hydro now available 

July 8, 2020 – Part 2 of 3 part webinar series: New York’s CHPE transmission corridor to import Canadian hydropower can’t deliver on jobs or climate

July 7, 2020 – NAMRA July newsletter released

July 1, 2020 – Canadian hydropower, colonialism, and social justice: why importing more hydropower to the U.S. is morally wrong and a climate disaster

June 17, 2020 – CHPE and its climate justice and greenhouse gas impacts 3 part webinar series

June 11, 2020 – CHPE Supporting Materials and Documents

June 9, 2020 – NAMRA Petitions

May 27, 2020 – NAMRA’s Response to Governor Cuomo’s proposal to import more Canadian hydropower and build a transmission corridor from Canada to New York 

May 21, 2020 – Newly released maps show damaging transmission corridors and megadam projects in U.S. and Canada

May 21, 2020 – Innu Nation Grand Chief Affidavit Submitted Regarding the New England Clean Energy Connect Transmission Corridor (CMP Corridor)

May 19, 2020 – Sign NAMRA’s Petition Calling on Northeast U.S. Governors to Reject Candian Hydro

May 19, 2020 – Release of film – Canadian Megadams & Voices of the Resistance: Why Hydropower is Dirty Energy

 

 

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.

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. 

We are not funded by or allied with any for-profit venture, including any that might compete with megadams in the energy marketplace. We are volunteer-led, with a volunteer coordinator. In 2019 we hired a paid staffer.  We are not a 501(c)(3), but operate with a fiscal sponsor, the Global Justice Ecology Project, an arrangement fully in compliance with IRS and non-profit governance standards and best practices.

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

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