Manitobans are plugged into a huge northern hydropower system. Our TV's, toasters and indeed our daily lives depend on the electricity produced by remote dams. But at the far end of the transmission lines lies a reality few of us ever see.
Elder Ellen Cook of the Misipawistik Cree Nation and Winnipeg photographer Matthew Sawatzky travelled north in the fall of 2012 to document part of the troubling and seldom-reported reality at the northern end of the transmission line.
Video Duration: 30:12
A Production of the
Interchurch Council on Hydropower, Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
energyjustice.mcc.org
Generously funded by
The St. Stephen's-Broadway Foundation, Inc.
2013