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Fisher River Solar Tour
Sep . 01 . 2020 ECL-INFO 0 Comment alternative energy

By Cliff Dano My name is Cliff Dano and I’m a summer student with Wa Ni Ska Tan about to start my second year with the Engineering Access Program at University of Manitoba. When I began my position as an Energy Alternatives Research Assistant with Wa Ni Ska Tan this past July, I immediately thought of the great strides Fisher River Cree Nation has made in renewable energy. Although I’m a band member of Fisher River, I grew up off-reserve in the tiny community of Mallard, MB on the Waterhen River. Having been raised by my dad who is a former rancher and fishermen, I learned at an early a

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Issue 5: Wa Ni Ska Tan Hydro Alliance Newsletter
Jul . 19 . 2020 Kelly Janz 0 Comment annual, community member piece, newsletter, report, Updates

Click on the Flipbook below to read the 2020 Wa Ni Ska Tan Hydro Alliance Newsletter. 

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Greenwashing Hydropower 
Jul . 14 . 2020 ECL-INFO 0 Comment greenwashing, Hydro-Québec

By Andrea Sutherland Companies use terms like “clean,” “green” and “environmentally-friendly” to celebrate their environmental sustainability, but without the evidence to support their claims, they are not ecological warriors; they’re greenwashing. The term “greenwashing” has been around since 1986, when environmentalist Jay Westerveld used it to describe a hotel’s effort to encourage clients to reuse towels. The hotel framed the initiative as a conservation effort when, in reality, the program was designed to reduce costs.  Almost forty years later, I joined Wa N

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Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin: COVID-19 Indigenous updates.
Jul . 14 . 2020 ECL-INFO 0 Comment Updates

By Michelle Daoust, Communications Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin: Indigenous-Led Planning and Responses to COVID-19 and other Pandemics, Then, Now, and into the Future, better known as COVID-19 Indigenous, is a research project that received full funding from the CIHR Rapid Research call for Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The call was made by the Canadian Institute of Health and Research (CIHR) mid-February in efforts to help manage and reduce the severity of the pandemic both socially and medically across Canada. The project name, Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin was chos

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Research Updates from Wa Ni Ska Tan.
Jul . 14 . 2020 ECL-INFO 0 Comment alternative energy, report, Updates

By Mathew Scammell,  Research Facilitator Here at Wa Ni Ska Tan, our work has definitely been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but we have done our best to remain engaged and committed to working alongside community and research partners despite the recent changes. University policies have prohibited most of us from having access to our normal workspace on campus, the Environmental Conservation Lab, but we have shifted to working from home instead as a way to continue furthering our goals of attaining social and environmental justice with regards to hydro development in Manitoba. Even th

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We are hiring!
Jun . 12 . 2020 ECL-INFO 0 Comment Updates

Job Title: Energy Alternatives Research Assistant Hours/Week: 35 Hourly Wage: $16 Time Frame: June 22nd - August 31st, 2020 Background: Wa Ni Ska Tan Alliance of Hydro-Impacted Communities is a research-based alliance that explores both the positive and negative implications of hydropower for nearby environments and Indigenous communities in Manitoba and other affected regions across Canada and beyond. The goal of Wa Ni Ska Tan is to enable healing, as well as meaningful and desirable social and environmental change through community directed projects and research. Duties: Worki

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