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[Previous Article] Previous Article [Next Article] Next Article [Current Results] Current Results [View Thread] View Thread [Post Message] Post Message Subject: [Fwd: Moisie River Alert (Canada)] From: Vijayan Chomatil Date: 1997/06/07 Message-Id: <339A047A.237D82D5@goodnet.com> Newsgroups: az.general [More Headers] Article Segment 1 of 3 (Get All 3 Segments) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7FEBA44030358C1E8A430313 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------D64F23C116D881B36DE2 2294" --------------D64F23C116D881B36DE22294 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------D64F23C116D881B36DE22294 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------D64F23C116D881B36DE22294-- --------------7FEBA44030358C1E8A430313 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: news.goodnet.com!news.good.net!news1.netusa.net!news.IAEhv.nl!news.oru.ed u!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!s u-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.igc.apc.org!cdp!nfnena From: Native Forest Network-ENA Newsgroups: alt.native Subject: Moisie River Alert (Canada) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:20:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org Xref: news.goodnet.com alt.native:2403272 From: Native Forest Network-ENA /* Written 8:24 AM Jun 6, 1997 by nfnena in igc:nfn.tempforest */ /* ---------- "Moisie River Alert (Canada)" ---------- */ From: Native Forest Network-ENA ALERT FROM FRIENDS OF NITASSINAN POB 804 BURLINGTON VT 05402 USA "Our people travelled up the Moisie into the interior. With this dam, the port of entry to our culture will be closed. The diversions they have planned will mean the annihilation of all the Creator has given us."-- Evelyn St. Onge, Innu from Mani Utenam "The decision to go ahead with the diversions constitutes the biggest experiment in the field of Atlantic salmon that has ever been undertaken in the history of the world, with all of the risks inherent in it. If we are not able as a society to preserve the Moisie as it is, what river in Quebec deserves to be so preserved?" --Association for the Protection of the Moisie river ACTION ALERT MISHTA SHIPU (MOISIE RIVER): KEEP IT WILD Hydro Quebec is proceeding with its plans to divert the Pekan and Carheil Rivers, tributaries of the Moisie River. In 1994, HQ's proposal to divert the rivers into the St. Marguerite as part of the St. Marguerite 3 (SM3) hydro-electric project, was not approved by the government. HQ was told to conduct further studies on the potential impacts of the river diversions on the Moisie Salmon. HQ has completed its two-year studies and submitted them to a government-appointed Commission. The Commission has concluded that the diversions will not affect the salmon. The SM3 project was the first HQ project to go through public hearings. Now HQ is attempting to remove the debate from the public sphere, to confine it to a team of government-appointed "experts" behind closed doors, and to secret negotiations with the Mani Utneam /Uashat Band Council. The government's authorization is imminent. Meanwhile HQ has begun negotiations with the Uashat/Mani Utenam Band Council for the "completion of the SM3 project which has already been approved." The Band Council is conducting these negotiations in spite the opposition from the community. This is the same Band Council who placed a thirty-year injunction over the community, prohibiting any form of opposition to its own power or to the SM3 project. HQ expects the negotiations to be completed within 45 days of the government's authorization for the diversions. Meanwhile, construction of the SM3 project--including the river diversions-- is proceeding on schedule. The Deadline for comments regarding the Moisie Salmon Study is JUNE 15. Enclosed is a copy of our letter to the Quebec government. Please use it as a sample letter; FAX your letters right away to: (Get Next Article Segment) _________________________________________________________________ Previous | Next | Results | View Thread | Author Profile | Post Message | Post Reply | Send Email _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 1995-97 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved.