Grand River Keeper Labrador has followed the development of the Muskrat Falls Project for several years, during early rumblings, to the environmental assessment process, through development negotiations and construction, and still keep a keen eye on impacts on the river and its estuaries. Ten years later, GRK and others are still documenting the situation. The dam and the power lines are still problematic.
In December 2022 Des Sullivan (Uncle Gnarley) did an opinion piece on the troubles with the Labrador Island Link that runs from Muskrat Falls; For full article click Here
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Recent updates from NL Hydro, the Liberty Consulting Group for the PUB, and other sources, confirm that very little power will either be generated or transmitted over the Labrador Island Link (LIL) from Muskrat Falls for a very long time. If you want “reliability”, that is not on offer – at all. Hydro’s latest Reliability Study is an admission that the LIL will always be a problem.
Put simply, whether Muskrat Falls come online or not, it cannot be relied upon. Without admitting their gross negligence at the start, Hydro is essentially saying that that we should try to salvage Muskrat Falls at an undefined cost, no matter how well or poorly it operates.
Downed power line after an ice storm
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Our goal is to preserve and protect the water quality and the ecological integrity of the Grand (Churchill) River and its estuaries for present and future users and for posterity through actions of public awareness, monitoring, research, networking, intervention and habitat restoration. As such one of our key objectives is to bring awareness both locally and globally of the cumulative impacts associated with megadams that we become aware of through our research.
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