Muskrat Falls : how a mega dam became a predatory formation / edited by Stephen Crocker and Lisa Moore.
Muskrat Falls : how a mega dam became a predatory formation / edited by Stephen Crocker and Lisa Moore.
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Memorial Univeristy Press,
Volume
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no. 39
Physical Description
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xii, 324 p. : col. ill., map.
Subject Term
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Muskrat Falls.
Hydroelectric power plants -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hydroelectric power plants -- Economic aspects -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador.
Series
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PAPERS ;
Additional Contributors
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Crocker, Stephen, 1964-
Moore, Lisa, 1964-
Summary
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For almost a decade now, the 13 billion dollar Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been a central defining problem in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. As the essays collected in Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation show, the dam's promise of clean hydro-power has been accompanied by an interconnected assemblage of crises linking together the threat of methylmercury poisoning with catastrophic flooding and cultural genocide for people living near the dam, and unmanageable public debt, suppression of alternative energy and threats to affordable domestic heat and electricity for everyone else. Its planning and development have involved the weakening of public regulatory bodies and the creation of a more privatized and less publicly accountable crown corporation overseeing the operation. Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused. It covers issues including Indigenous resistance to the dam; the politics and economics of the project; the role of journalism and social media in covering the event; controversy about the geophysical stability of the dam and interviews people living under threat of flooding and methylmercury poisoning downstream.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781894725941
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