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Letter to the editor: CMP’s ‘clean energy’ project exploits Indigenous people

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion February 02, 2023

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In the last five years, we have heard that Central Maine Power’s New England Clean Energy Connect is going to bring “clean energy” produced by Hydro-Quebec to Massachusetts. Somehow lost in this discussion is what Hydro-Quebec and the province of Quebec did to the Indigenous peoples to get this power. In continuously stealing their land and resources, they have condemned these people to a life of poverty, and robbed the current and future... + full article



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