In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development
by Aimée Craft and Jill Blakley
University of Manitoba Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-88755-294-6 | Paper: 978-0-88755-288-5 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-292-2 (epub) | eISBN: 978-0-88755-290-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification TD195.D35I48 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.914150971271
TOC
Cover
Contents
Foreword
Map of Hydroelectric Generating Stations in Manitoba
Introduction. Built on the Back of the Turtle: Reflections on How Hydroelectric Dams Have Changed Landscapes
Part 1. The Evolution of Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba
Chapter 1. When Dreams and Markets Collide: Regulatory Gaps and the Keeyask Generating Station
Chapter 2. Concrete Impulse: A Critique of the Pro-Keeyask Narrative
Community Voices. “Born into Debt: Wuskwatim”
Chapter 3. The Augmented Flow Program: Impacts on South Indian Lake
Part 2. Impacts of Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba
Community Voices. “The Hurt I Carry with Me”
Chapter 4. The Keeyask Project: “No Significant Cumulative Effects”?
Chapter 5. Divergent World Views and Environmental Assessment
Community Voices. “What Happened in Fox Lake”
Chapter 6. “The Flooders” and “the Cree”: Challenging the Hydro Metanarrative Using Achmowinak “Stories”
Community Voices. “What about the Sturgeon?”
Chapter 7. Beavers, Sturgeon, and Terns: How River Regulation Can Affect Aquatic and Riparian Ecosystems in Northern Manitoba
Chapter 8. The Conservation of Caribou: Matters of Space, Time, and Scale
Chapter 9. Connections and Disconnections: A Review of the Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment in Northern Manitoba
Community Voices. “We Are the Family”
Part 3. Partnership Building and Hydroelectric Development
Chapter 10. The Honour of the Crown and Hydroelectric Development in Manitoba
Community Voices. “Act of God”
Chapter 11. Social Licence, Consent, and the Keeyask Project
Chapter 12. The Keeyask Model from a Community Economic Development Perspective
Part 4. What Is Good Development? Legacy Building in the North
Community Voices. “Hiding from Hydro”
Chapter 13. The Two-Track Approach: Foundations for Indigenous and Western Frameworks in Environmental Evaluation
Community Voices. “The Relation to Our Land”
Chapter 14. Good Development Should Not End with Environmental Assessment: Adaptive Management in Northern Development
Chapter 15. Will There Be Lasting Gains? Sustainability Assessment, Keeyask, and the Manitoba Power System Plan
Conclusion. Pathways to a Better Legacy of Development in Northern Manitoba
Appendix 1. The Government of Manitoba’s Apology
Appendix 2. Comments on the Official Apology for Harms Caused by the Hydropower System
Appendix 3. Excerpts from Economic Review of Bipole III and Keeyask
Abbreviations
Contributors
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