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dam-l letter to US editor, 28 April 2000
To: Aboriginal Coalition
From: Will Braun
Date: 5/1/2000 9:35:07 PM
Subj: letter to US editor, 28 April 2000
Forwarded by:
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Will Braun
Mennonite Central Committee
Energy Issues Coordinator
wjb@mennonitecc.ca
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Pimicikamak Cree of Manitoba ask Minnesota to disapprove NSP, Manitoba Hydro
contract
Voices [letters to the editor], The Native American Press/Ojibwe News [St.
Paul MN], 28 April 2000
Thank you for your coverage of the recent environmental justice conference
at the University of St. Thomas, which featured Chief John Miswagon of
Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Cross Lake, Manitoba. [Excerpted from Tom
Meersman, Star Tribune, April 21 edition of Press/ON.]
Minnesotans -- if they are customers of Northern States Power -- are
realizing that 10 percent of the electricity they use is generated at the
expense of northern Manitoba's Crees. After the dams and reservoirs were
built, a 1977 treaty designed to provide compensation and economic
development for the five Cree communities still has not been implemented.
I encourage your readers to write to the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission (121 Seventh Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul 55101), which has
authority to approve a pending contract between Manitoba Hydro and Northern
States Power.
If this contract goes ahead, this state will take a huge step backward. It
will demonstrate a callous disregard for the people of the north who know
that Minnesotans have energy choices available now which do not violate the
human rights of people of color.
Sincerely yours,
Ann Stewart
(Information Officer, Pimicikamak Cree Nation)
121 West Grant Street/Suite 116
Minneapolis MN 55403-2340 USA
p: 612.871.8404
e: stewartship@visi.com
f: 612.871.7922
This material is distributed by Ann Stewart (USDOJ FARA #5313) on behalf of
Pimicikamak Cree Nation. Additional information is available at the
Department of Justice, Washington DC., which may deem this information to be
"propaganda."