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Environmental Watch-Dog Not Happy With New Manitoba Hydro Board

An environmental watch-dog says that the new board of Manitoba Hydro will put economics and business over the environment and community.

 

Eric Reder, the Manitoba campaign director for the Wilderness Committee, spoke to Arctic Radio News and said that northern Manitoba and Indigenous communities are more directly affected by the work of Hydro than those living in the south.

 

He said that going forward, Manitoba Hydro is an essential component in getting a handle on what he calls climate chaos and lowering fossil fuel use, though it has to be done right and in a just way for northern communities.

 

Reder added that with the immense destruction to the environment and way of life of the Indigenous people that call the territory home, it is concerning that the new board seems to be predominantly urban and business oriented.

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