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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
    • Corporate Profits
  • 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)
  • Solutions
  • 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
      • 2021: “Megadams = Megadamage” Webinar
      • 2021: Three-part webinar series – What’s new in the campaign to save rivers and their communities?
      • 2020 COP 26 Coalition From the Ground Up: Global Gathering for Climate Justice
      • 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
      • COP 26
      • 52nd National Day of Mourning
      • 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

January 17, 2022 – Site C dam to require 8.7% rate hike over 2 years

January 14, 2022 – Norway blows up hydro dam to restore river health and fish stocks

January 13, 2022 – The Saga of Mekong Tributary Dams

January 12, 2022 – Dam providing power to millions nears critically low water level

January 11, 2022 – In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River

January 8, 2022 – B.C. Supreme Court finds Nechako River ‘dramatically’ harmed by Kenney Dam 

January 7, 2022 – NAMRA Winter 2022 Newsletter

January 2, 2022 – Brazil floods: Parts of Bahia submerged in water after two dams break

December 29, 2021 – Delays in Muskrat Falls project have cost Nova Scotia Power ratepayers $200 million

December 21, 2021 – Senator Mary Jane McCallum speaks on behalf of hydro-impacted communities in requesting that Canada declare a climate emergency and reject hydropower as a solution to the climate crisis

December 16, 2021 – Khuga Dam Continues to Devastate Lives of Indigenous Women in Manipur, India

December 16, 2021 – Judge Denies CMP’s Motion to Delay New Law Terminating CMP Corridor

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. 

NAMRA is an affiliate of Save the World’s Rivers.

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

To donate to help support our work, click here.

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