Thread by @Lidsville

I'm trying to livetweet this webinar but it's going so fast I don't want to miss anything. Point is to inform the US that Canadian hydroelectricity is dirty (methylmercury/enviro devastation), rights-violating, environmentally racist & shouldn't be classed as green #SiteC #bcpoli

..A growing number of figures in Canada are speaking out about the extreme impacts on Indigenous peoples, downstream communities and climate from hydro dams. Here Senator Mary Jane McCallum, & slide from Denise Cole of @protectlabrador #bcpoli #SiteC #MuskratFalls @resistmegadams

@protectlabrador @resistmegadams ..As if that's not bad enough, the group wanting to build transmission lines to move Hydro Quebec's dirty Canadian hydroelectricity to New York is BLACKSTONE, built out of remains of Lehman Bros, whose board features Brian Mulroney. #NoDamWay #TheDamTruth @resistmegadams #cdnpoli

@protectlabrador @resistmegadams ..Speaker Jaquie Dreschler in the US, describing the extreme impacts of construction of those transmission lines to the US, for energy they do not need. Preferable: local, smaller scale energy projects where needed, not major infrastructure importing dirty, unjust Canadian energy

@protectlabrador @resistmegadams Wyldon Fishman from NYC, talking about lack of energy conservation in NY state. Why spend money on transmission lines when you could save MORE electricity by retrofitting buildings? She calls the energy we don't use "negawatts." It's the same in BC: we don't pursue conservation

..Peter Kelly-Detwiler in the US, talking about energy economics and showing the transmission corridors from Canadian hydro don't make sense, given lack of conservation, cheapness & efficiency of wind & solar power, etc. Some of it is too complex to summarize but that's the gist.

.."My imprecation: hold off. The longer we can delay these outdated hydro projects the better." Many far better, cheaper, cleaner solutions are available. Peter Kelly-Detwiler has just completed a book called The Energy Switch on this topic. #theDamTruth #NoDamWay #SiteC #cdnpoli