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To:       William J Braun/Winnipeg/MCC
From:  Will Braun
Date:  11/20/2000  8:45:57 PM
Subj:   Various

Below:

1) CD-ROM on Cross Lake ($2)

2) Article on Cross Lake in Sierra Club Mag.

3)  "Coal-fired smoke screen" letter to Free Press ed.



_________________________________
1)

11-14-00

Dear Cree sympathizers,

Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota has produced a CD-Rom about Cross
Lake.  It contains about 30 color photos of Cross Lake's residents, the
town, and damage to the river environment; website links; and audio-taped
testimonies of Cross Lake elders and council members.  You may purchase
them
for $2 apiece, or you can borrow the ones I have.  To borrow a CD-Rom, call
651-255-6945 or e-mail me at birch7@goldengate.net; I'll snail mail it out
to you.  You may also contact Andrea Kiepe at Clean Water about purchasing
one:  612-623-3666.

The testimony by one elder is translated into English by the chief.  It
ends
with a lament from the elder that he has told the stories about the river
before and after the dams so many times, but it hurts him very deeply to
think about it, and that all his spoken words don't seem to help any.  He
hopes his recorded words will go to a place where they will be effective.

I hope so, too,

Diane J. Peterson
birch7@goldengate.net

Minnesota Witness for Environmental Justice
update line:  (651) 255-6945


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2)

November/December 2000 issue of Sierra magazine, p. 79

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200011/bulletin.asp#North%20American%20Prairie

North American Prairie
Harmful Hydro

Since the 1970s, Manitoba Hydro has rerouted rivers and dammed lakes in
50,000 square miles of boreal forest. Flooding caused by the
government-owned power project, which sells almost half of the power
it generates to the United States, has also washed out 3 million acres of
traditional Pimicikamak Cree land. Minnesota's Northern States Power,
Manitoba Hydro's biggest customer, now wants to purchase even more wattage.

The North Star Chapter's Harmful Hydro campaign is working to galvanize
Minnesotans to stop the buy and unplug altogether from the Canadian company.

"Many people think hydroelectric power is clean," says Kate Kempton of
Sierra Club Canada. "In fact, big hydro projects flood wetlands and forests,
and the vegetation rots under water, releasing methane-a gas
that causes global warming."

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will most likely make its decision
on the power buy-and on the fate of the Cree and their lands-in early 2001.

_________________________________
3)

Winnipeg Free Press
20 Nov. 2000
Letters to the Editor, p.A11

Hydro talks green while spewing emissions

What an interesting article I received in my Hydro bill a few days ago,
referring to Manitoba Hydro's sustainable development policy.  They list all of
their priorities in environmental management, in particular the one paragraph
that states: "Manitoba Hydro's contribution to global efforts to deal with
climate change issues and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by planning future
electricity production by hydroelectric generation."  How does its overuse and
misuse of its coal-fired plant in Selkirk fall under its so-called initiatives?
Hydro is operating a plant that for the past three years has been spewing out
emissions into the atmosphere with no emission controls on the stack.

Are profits the only criteria for Manitoba Hydro and is its environmental policy
just a coal-fired smoke screen?

Murray Rougeau
Winnipeg
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