Minnesota and Hydropower From Manitoba Hydro
News and Other Information
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Ruling upholding MN Public Utilities Commission decision to allow a
$1.7-billion Manitoba Hydro power sale to Xcel Energy in Minnesota
- issued by the MN Court of Appeals, March 30, 2004
The Pimicikamak Cree of Cross Lake had appealed a decision by PUC
not to investigate the impact of hydro development on their homeland
before approving the deal that allows Xcel Energy to import power
until 2015.
GreenGreenWater.com
A documentary film about hydroelectric power and its impact on the
lives of thousands of Aboriginal people in northern Manitoba.
Through the Trees - The Truth About Logging in Canada - by
Natural Resources Defense Council, ForestEthics and Greenpeace,
September 2003 [also a
color map with inset about Pimicikamak and hydro]
A report about the effects of logging and industrial development,
including hydropower, in the Boreal Forest of Canada.
Designing A Clean Energy Future - A Resource Manual - The
Minnesota Project, UofM Regional Sustainable Development
Partnerships and MN Dept. of Commerce, July 2003
Order
Denying Reconsideration - issued by the MN PUC, June 2, 2003
Order
Approving Xcel's Power Purchase Agreement with Manitoba Hydro -
issued by MN PUC, March 18, 2003
Final
Province to Wake Up to Wind - Manitoba Gets on Board - Windpower
Monthly, February 2003
Other Communities Impacted By Manitoba
Hydro
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Fox Lake First Nation
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Split Lake
Tataskweyak Cree Nation
By a 5-0 vote at its meeting on December
19, 2002, the Public Utilities Commission decided not to reconsider
its February 7, 2001 order regarding the socioeconomic effects of
Manitoba Hydro's hydroelectric generation upon the Pimicikamak Cree
Nation (PCN) and its members. In that earlier order, the Commission
found that, under the unique facts of this case, all socioeconomic
effects of that generation have been adequately internalized by
Manitoba Hydro pursuant to the December 16, 1977 Northern Flood
Agreement (NFA or "the treaty") and determined that a separate
Minnesota proceeding aimed at further accounting for those costs was
unnecessary.
The Commission specifically denied PCN's request for a contested
case hearing to further pursue the socioeconomic issues. However,
the Commission directed Xcel, the purchaser of the hydroelectric
generation in question, to monitor and report on the status of the
on-going implementation of the NFA in its next Resource Plan. The
Commission went on to approve the power purchase agreement with
reporting requirements and clarifications. A formal order in this
case will be issued within the next several weeks.
PUC Staff Briefing Paper - Should the Commission approve, reject, or
modify the Power Purchase Agreement between Xcel Energy and Manitoba
Hydro for 500 MW during the 2005-2015 time period? - MN PUC,
December 19, 2002
Hydropower on
Trial - Pulse of the Twin Cities, October 29, 2002
Comments
Regarding the Petition of Xcel Energy for Approval of a Power
Purchase Agreement with Manitoba Hydro - Minnesota Witness for
Environmental Justice, October 21, 2002
Manitoba Hydro Signs Agreement for Sale of 500 MW to Xcel Energy
- Manitoba Hydro Release, August 9, 2002
Damaged - A Canadian hydroelectric plant has wreaked havoc on the
environment and a community of Cree Indians. Its biggest customer?
Xcel Energy. - City Pages, July 24, 2002
Proxy
Vote on Energy Sourcing Policy, Renewable Energy and Indigenous
Rights - for Xcel Energy Shareholder Meeting, April 18, 2002
Shareholder proposal No. 2 asks Xcel Energy to increase future power
supplies from renewable sources that do not have undue adverse
impacts upon indigenous peoples. In 2001 this proposal received the
support of 22 million shares, or 9.4% of the vote.
Native
Americans Challenge Hydropower Plans - Great Lakes Radio
Consortium, September 11, 2000
Manitoba Clean Environment Commission
Utilities and Other Organizations
Research, Policy and Other Organizations
American
Public Power Association
American Rivers-Hydropower
Australian Greenhouse Office's Water Energy Technologies section
Coastal Data
Information Program - UC San Diego
Dam-Reservoir Info
& Impact Archive
Danish Wave Energy Information
European
Wave Energy Research Network
Green-E-Renewable Electricity Program
Hydro
Research Foundation
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
International Centre for Hydropower
International Network on Small Hydro Power
International Rivers Network
Low Impact Hydropower Institute
Manchester Citizens
Against HydroPower
ManitobaWildLands.org
Micro
Hydropower - nice site by Wim Klunne
National
Hydropower Association
World
Commission on Dams
Publications and Other Information
Wave Energy Reports - Electric Power Research Insitute,
2003-2005
Micro-Hydropower Systems - A Buyer's Guide - Natural Resources
Canada, 2004
12 Reasons to Exclude Large Hydro from Renewables Initiatives -
International Rivers Network (IRN), November 2003
Renewable Energy Annual 2001 - Energy Information
Administration, November 2002
Hawaii Ocean
Thermal Energy Conversion Fact Sheet
Q&A on Wind and
Wave Power - BBC, November 2001
Report on Wave and Tidal Energy - by the Science and Technology
Committee of the Parliament of the U.K, April 2001
Dams
and Development - A New Framework for Decision-making - World
Commission on Dams, November 2000
Dam-Reservoir Info
& Impact Archive
Dam Removal Success Stories - Restoring Rivers Through Selective
Removal of Dams that Don't Make Sense - by American Rivers,
Friends of the Earth and Trout Unlimited, December 1999
Dammed
Deregulation - How Deregulation of the Electric Power Industry Could
Affect the Nation's Rivers - by Charlie Higley, Public Citizen,
June 1999
International Journal on Hydropower and Dams
Journal
of Environmental Hydrology
Home
Power Magazine
Case
Studies of Small Hydro Systems - Energy Research Group, Dublin,
Ireland, 1993-1995
Federal Government Resources
Agencies and Programs
DOE
Hydropower Program
EPA's Section on Hydropower and Global Warming
Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Hydropower Licensing
NREL's Ocean Thermal
Energy Conversion
U.S.
Army Corps of Enginners
US
Bureau of Reclamation
Minnesota-related Hydropower Reports and News
Engineering Poverty - Colonialism and Hydroelectric Development in
Northern Manitoba - by Steven M. Hoffman, University of St.
Thomas, February 2004 [see also the
Full
Report]
Powering
Injustice - Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba - by
Steven M. Hoffman, University of St. Thomas [originally in Byrne,
John, Leigh Glover and Cecilia Martinez, eds. 2002. Environmental
Justice - Discourses in International Political Economy. Energy and
Environmental Policy. Volume 8. New Brunswick, NJ - Transaction
Publishers.]
Dam Removal Success Stories - Restoring Rivers Through Selective
Removal of Dams that Don't Make Sense - by American Rivers,
Friends of the Earth and Trout Unlimited, December 1999
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Cannon River, Minnesota
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Kettle River, Minnesota
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