Muskrat Falls
How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-894725-94-1 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a decade now, the $13 billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been generating a never-ending assemblage of crises in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. The dam's promise of clean hydro power has been accompanied by menacing risks of methylmercury poisoning and catastrophic flooding that threaten people who live near the dam in Labrador. Meanwhile, the dismantling of public regulatory bodies, dubious investment finance, and the suppression of alternative energy sources have resulted in unmanageable public debt and a future of unaffordable heat and electricity.
Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political, and environmental problems generated by the hydro project. The volume covers Indigenous resistance to the dam, the role of journalism and social media, and the science and politics of methylmercury and geophysical stability. It contains scholarly essays, interviews, original artwork, photographs, and a short story impelled by Muskrat Falls.
Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political, and environmental problems generated by the hydro project. The volume covers Indigenous resistance to the dam, the role of journalism and social media, and the science and politics of methylmercury and geophysical stability. It contains scholarly essays, interviews, original artwork, photographs, and a short story impelled by Muskrat Falls.
Reviews / Votes
"This searing indictment-economically, scientifically, politically, morally, artistically-of the Muskrat Falls development is a must-read for anyone affected by, or concerned about, the future of Indigenous Peoples, the state, and hydro power, both in Labrador and in Canada generally." - Daniel Macfarlane, author of Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall"Muskrat Falls delves deeply and widely into what economically, environmentally and culturally ails the development....It's not light reading, but it is accessible, and given human face and voice where possible. - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-894725-94-1 (9781894725941)
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Persons
Lisa Moore is the author of the short story collections Something for Everyone, Open, and Degrees of Nakedness and the novels Alligator, Caught, February, and This Is How We Love, as well as the young adult novel Flannery. She has co-edited, along with Dede Crane, 24 True Stories About Birth by Canadian Authors, co-edited The Democracy Cookbook with Alex Marland, and co-edited, with Stephen Crocker, Muskrat Falls: How A Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Lisa has also edited four anthologies of short fiction and is a co-librettist for the opera February, based on her novel by the same name. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Content
Map of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project
Foreword Warren Cariou
Introduction: How a Public Utility Became a "Predatory Formation" Stephen Crocker
Section One: The Threat Downstream: A Sacrifice Zone in Labrador
Hydraulic Imperialism and the Infrastructure of Canadian Colonialism Shiri Pasternak
Exploring the Health and Well-being Concerns of Labrador Land Protectors Jessica Penney
"Industrial Colonization": Muskrat Falls in a Settler-Colonial Context Neria Aylward
Muskrat Falls: Methylmercury, Food Security, and Canadian Hydroelectric Development Ryan S. D. Calder, Amina T. Schartup, Trevor Bell, and Elsie M. Sunderland
Stability of the North Spur at Muskrat Falls Stig Bernander and Lennart Elfgren
Section Two: Political Economy of an "Investment without Economics"
Because Financialization: How Muskrat Falls Can Succeed as an Investment and Fail as a Public Utility Stephen Crocker
Will Muskrat Falls Pay Dividends? David Vardy
Muskrat Falls: Investment without Economics James P. Feehan
Section Three: Representing and Resisting the Crisis: Journalism, Art, and Fiction
Muskrat Falls and the Imperative to Decolonize Journalism Justin Brake
Criminalizing Journalism: Justin Brake and The Independent Robin Whitaker
Confronting Recklessness: The Role of the Uncle Gnarley Blog Des Sullivan
Art and Activism at Muskrat Falls Jennifer Dyer
Embodying Crisis Lisa Moore
Words Spoken before All Others: Ashes and Penance Gerald Vaandering
The Fever Rhonda Pelley
When She Said to Decolonize Tracey Doherty
Foreword Warren Cariou
Introduction: How a Public Utility Became a "Predatory Formation" Stephen Crocker
Section One: The Threat Downstream: A Sacrifice Zone in Labrador
Hydraulic Imperialism and the Infrastructure of Canadian Colonialism Shiri Pasternak
Exploring the Health and Well-being Concerns of Labrador Land Protectors Jessica Penney
"Industrial Colonization": Muskrat Falls in a Settler-Colonial Context Neria Aylward
Muskrat Falls: Methylmercury, Food Security, and Canadian Hydroelectric Development Ryan S. D. Calder, Amina T. Schartup, Trevor Bell, and Elsie M. Sunderland
Stability of the North Spur at Muskrat Falls Stig Bernander and Lennart Elfgren
Section Two: Political Economy of an "Investment without Economics"
Because Financialization: How Muskrat Falls Can Succeed as an Investment and Fail as a Public Utility Stephen Crocker
Will Muskrat Falls Pay Dividends? David Vardy
Muskrat Falls: Investment without Economics James P. Feehan
Section Three: Representing and Resisting the Crisis: Journalism, Art, and Fiction
Muskrat Falls and the Imperative to Decolonize Journalism Justin Brake
Criminalizing Journalism: Justin Brake and The Independent Robin Whitaker
Confronting Recklessness: The Role of the Uncle Gnarley Blog Des Sullivan
Art and Activism at Muskrat Falls Jennifer Dyer
Embodying Crisis Lisa Moore
Words Spoken before All Others: Ashes and Penance Gerald Vaandering
The Fever Rhonda Pelley
When She Said to Decolonize Tracey Doherty