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Muskrat Falls
How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation
9781894725941
Paperback / softback, published 10 November 2021
300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.482 kg
"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
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.
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