"We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and by the very nature of their enterprises leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated.......We take this as a given for it is the foundation of our system, the way commerce extracts value and profit in a resource-driven economy. But if you think about it, especially from the perspective of so many other cultures, touched and inspired by quite different visions of life and land, it appears to be a very odd and highly anomalous human behavior."
-Wade Davis in The Wayfinders

Sep 27, 2008

Romaine River Youtube Videos

Video of the dam sites by Martin Larrivee.




Too bad they won't let you embed this video. Looks like they are putting that $6.5 billion to good use already. These video's show the sections of the rivers that are going to be dammed. The Rupert one has a bridge that the pilot flies beneath.

Youtube link for Romaine fly-over. Notice the canoe's camped at the bottome of Les Murailles.-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zfb3koTOQ

Youtube link for the Rupert fly-over-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdQ5gbQbKr4

Yes, a really big project that Hydro Quebec recently finished. Diverting the Rupert River into the Eastmain. Permanantly reducing the rivers flow by over 3/4's. Imagine what affect this is going to have on the ecosystem of the river. Check out these two videos to see what the Rupert was and isn't anymore.



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