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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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  • 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 Hydropower Impacts
    • What is Hydropower?
    • 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
    • Cumulative impacts on river systems, climate & forests
    • Climate Impacts
      • Greenhouse Gas Impacts
      • Myth of clean and renewable hydropower
      • Greenwashing hydropower
    • Methylmercury Poisoning
    • Canadian government subsidies
    • Ecosystem impacts
    • Water Cycles
  • New Canadian Megadams
    • Quebec – Romaine River
    • Labrador – Muskrat Falls: Commission of Inquiry
      • Muskrat Falls Inquiry
    • Labrador – Gull Island/Grand River
    • British Columbia: Site C Megadam – Webinar
  • Transmission Corridors
    • Maine NECEC – CMP Corridor
      • Report: NECEC and CHPE transmission corridors tied to potential for more dam construction
    • 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)
  • New York: TDI – CHPE Corridor
    • Notice of Violations of environmental laws: CHPE & endangered sturgeon in Hudson River
    • CHPE corridor: regulatory documents
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    • 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower Projects are a Climate Disaster
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    • 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
      • New York’s CHPE/TDI corridor: social justice, climate, and New York’s pursuit of Canadian hydroelectricity – 3 parts
      • Earth Day 2020
    • Blog
      • Human Rights & U.N. DRIP Petition
      • The Northern Pass and NECEC
    • 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
    • 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

February 23, 2021 – Announcing NAMRA three-part 2021 webinar series featuring activists and experts who are leading the efforts to expose the myth that hydropower from megadams is “renewable and clean.”

February 7, 2021 – Hydro-Quebec has left Quebec’s First Nations behind

February 1, 2021 – Fact Sheet on Hydro-Impacted communities in Manitoba, Canada

December 16, 2020 – NAMRA December Newsletter 

December 9, 2020 – Press Release: Controversy over Blackstone’s transmission corridor for Canadian hydropower to NYC

December 3, 2020 – Export of Canadian Hydropower to the United States – First Nations in Quebec and Labrador Unit to Oppose Hydro-Quebec Project

November 26, 2020 – NAMRA land and water defenders virtually participate in 51st Annual National Day of Mourning to spread awareness of megadam destruction in Canada

November 17, 2020 – Religious Organizations Along the River (ROAR) announces their opposition to CHPE

November 9, 2020 – Letter to Hydro-Quebec CEO: Hydro-Quebec must compensate First Nations for the impacts of its projects and facilities

October 28, 2020 – Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Army Corps for Indefensible CMP Corridor Analysis

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

October 14, 2020 – Canada’s Sinking Site C Megadam Webinar 

October 8, 2020 – NAMRA joins Center for Biological Diversity and Innu of Labrador in demanding a new environmental impact statement on the effects of Canadian hydropower corridor to NY on sturgeon and protected habitat

October 7, 2020 – Five Indigenous communities in Canada announce opposition to hydropower transmission corridor through Maine to Massachusetts 

October 6, 2020 – Innu Nation of Labrador sues Hydro-Quebec for $4 billion for unlawfully extracting electricity from their lands since the 1970s and selling it to the US

October 5, 2020 – Stop All Work at the Site C Dam Now Petition

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 – CHPE Series – Part 3 of 3: New York’s propose Champlain Hudson Power Express corridor to import more Canadian hydroelectricity is a bad deal for communities, rivers, and the climate featuring Eric Johansson (Professor of Maritime Transportation SUNY Maritime), George Jackman (Habitat Restoration Manager Hudson Riverkeeper), Will Nichols (Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of the Nation Magazine)

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 – CHPE Series – Part 2 of 3: New York’s CHPE transmission corridor to import Canadian hydropower can’t deliver on jobs or climate featuring Paul Gallay (Executive Director of Hudson Riverkeeper), Dr. Bradford Hager (MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences), Tom Ellis (Solidarity Committee of the Capital District)

June 17, 2020 – CHPE Series – Part 1 of 3: Why Importing Canadian Hydroelectricity is a Bad Deal For New York and Front Line Communities featuring Denise Cole (Labrador Land Protectors), Jacqui Drechsler (Rockland County, NY), Wyldon Fishman (Director of New York Solar Energy Society), and Peter Kelly-Detwiler (Northbridge Energy Partners)

June 11, 2020 – CHPE Supporting Materials and Documents

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

 

 

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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