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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?
    • 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
    • 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
    • Muskrat Falls Project
      • 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
    • 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
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    • Petitions
  • Archives & 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
      • 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 & Updates

June 17, 2021 – The Myth of Clean Hydro: Dams and Reservoirs Emit Greenhouse Gases and Make Climate Change Worse

June 13, 2021 – Indigenous people being ignored by hydro dam operators 

June 11, 2021 – CMP Corridor: What it is and why it should be rejected

June 5, 2021 – Conservation groups set to sue major hydro plant owner over Kennebec dam operations

June 4, 2021 – Our hydro dams are bubbling up climate-warming methane

June 3, 2021 – Estimate of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) for the future Site C Hydropower Project in British Columbia

May 28, 2021 – Latest photos of Site C construction

May 21, 2021 – Press Release: “Renewable Electricity Standard” Sign-On letter to Congress Wrong on Hydropower

May 14, 2021 – Groundbreaking new study proves that dams release twice as much carbon as they store

May 6, 2021 – 2021 webinar series on the impacts of Canadian hydropower on rivers, communities, and the climate

April 13, 2021 – 3rd edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse, an editorial exposing false solutions to the climate crisis has been published

April 7, 2021 – Lucien Wabanonik’s message for New York on hydropower

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. 

To donate to help support our work, click here.

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