In Our Backyard
Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development
Published on 30. May 2022
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-88755-294-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Our Backyard tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, academics, scientists, and regulators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Winnipeg
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
785 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88755-294-6 (9780887552946)
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Persons
Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Manitoba. She holds a University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water. She prioritizes Indigenous-led and interdisciplinary research, including visual arts and film, and works with many Indigenous nations and communities on Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water).
Jill Blakley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and an associate faculty member of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cumulative effects assessment. Her research program centres primarily on energy and transportation mega-projects and their implications for land use, vegetation, wildlife habitat, water and affected local and Indigenous communities.
Content
- Intro
- Built on the Back of the Turtle: Reflections on How Hydroelectric Dams Have Changed Landscapes
- Chapter 1 When Dreams and Markets Collide: Regulatory Gaps and the Keeyask Generating Station
- Chapter 2 Concrete Impulse: A Critique of the Pro-Keeyask NarrativeTestimony Excerpts - "Born Into Debt: Wuskwatim"
- Chapter 3 The Augmented Flow Program: Impacts on South Indian LakeTestimony Excerpts - "The Hurt I Carry With Me"
- Chapter 4 The Keeyask Project: "No Significant Cumulative Effects?"
- Chapter 5 Divergent Worldviews and Environmental AssessmentTestimony Excerpts - "What Happened in Fox Lake"
- Chapter 6 "The Flooders" and "the Cree": Challenging the Hydro Metanarrative Using Achimowinak StoriesTestimony Excerpts - "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 EffectsTestimony Excerpts - "We Are the Family"
- Chapter 10 The Honour of the Crown and Hydroelectric Development in ManitobaTestimony Excerpts - "Act of God"
- Chapter 11 Partnerships or Paternalism? Social License, Consent, and the Keeyask Project
- Chapter 12 The Keeyask Model from a Community Economic Development Perspective
- Chapter 13 The Two-Track Approa
- Chapter Foundations for Indigenous and Western Frameworks in Environmental EvaluationTestimony Excerpts - "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
- Built on the Back of the Turtle: Reflections on How Hydroelectric Dams Have Changed Landscapes
- Chapter 1 When Dreams and Markets Collide: Regulatory Gaps and the Keeyask Generating Station
- Chapter 2 Concrete Impulse: A Critique of the Pro-Keeyask NarrativeTestimony Excerpts - "Born Into Debt: Wuskwatim"
- Chapter 3 The Augmented Flow Program: Impacts on South Indian LakeTestimony Excerpts - "The Hurt I Carry With Me"
- Chapter 4 The Keeyask Project: "No Significant Cumulative Effects?"
- Chapter 5 Divergent Worldviews and Environmental AssessmentTestimony Excerpts - "What Happened in Fox Lake"
- Chapter 6 "The Flooders" and "the Cree": Challenging the Hydro Metanarrative Using Achimowinak StoriesTestimony Excerpts - "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 EffectsTestimony Excerpts - "We Are the Family"
- Chapter 10 The Honour of the Crown and Hydroelectric Development in ManitobaTestimony Excerpts - "Act of God"
- Chapter 11 Partnerships or Paternalism? Social License, Consent, and the Keeyask Project
- Chapter 12 The Keeyask Model from a Community Economic Development Perspective
- Chapter 13 The Two-Track Approa
- Chapter Foundations for Indigenous and Western Frameworks in Environmental EvaluationTestimony Excerpts - "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