[news] Nation Occupies Manitoba Hydro Station

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

April 16, 2007 | CBC News

Members of [the Pimicikamak Cree Nation] (northern Manitoba) ... have occupied a hydroelectric generating station and say they will not leave until provincial officials agree to meet with them.

Band members are protesting against a long delay in implementing the Northern Flood Agreement, an agreement among the federal and provincial governments, Manitoba Hydro and five First Nations affected by flooding caused by hydroelectric projects on the Nelson and Churchill rivers.

  


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