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A River at Risk: Grand RiverKeeper Labrador’s Response to the Renewed MOU

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If the benefits of further development are being calculated in dollars, the environmental and social costs must also be identified, measured and, wherever possible, costed. Grand RiverKeeper Labrador is reserving in-depth comments on the renewed MOU between Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec to until we have had a chance to review the complete document.   We […]

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Negative Impacts of Damming Rivers

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Rivers act as reactive conduits connecting the continental and oceanic carbon (C) cycles, and all the available evidence suggests that river damming significantly changes the export of organic carbon (OC) to the ocean. Dam construction and closure modify the downstream transfer of OC and essential nutrients, and thus the trophic state of the river system and that of receiving water bodies, including lakes and nearshore marine environments.

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Labrador group signs declaration to UN to stop hydroelectricity from being marketed as green energy

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Grand Riverkeeper Labrador, Inc. (GRL) was one of 340 organizations from 78 countries that called upon the UNFCCC to agree that “Climate mitigation efforts must reject so-called ‘sustainable hydropower”’ as a solution to combat climate change.”

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Muskrat Falls transmission fix requires 9,000 new pieces of equipment 

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This latest chapter of the Muskrat Falls saga; replacement of air flow spoilers on the 161 spans, comes weeks after Hydro announced the vastly overbudget project’s price tag had hit $13.5 billion and an independent report stated at least one of the power plant’s four generating units must be fully dismantled. 

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Muskrat Falls Reservoir

Sold down the river

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After a decade of work and $13.4 billion — nearly double the price tag promised in 2012 — there are now serious doubts the project will ever perform as designed. Equipment is falling from overhead lines in locations so remote it takes days to reach them before repairs can even begin. Muskrat Falls power is so unreliable that an aging thermal plant the project was meant to replace will remain open for years to come.

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