Electric Rivers

By Sean McCutcheon and Mccutheon

"A book about how and why the James Bay project is being built, how it works, the consequences its building will have for people and for the environment.... it cuts through the rhetoric so frequently... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895431182
• ISBN13: 9781895431186
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

On Tyranny and Human Rights Violations in Canada

Electric Rivers is a concise overview of the complex issues and events that surround the construction of and opposition to the James Bay Project, and the subsequent James Bay II. It is a story that I firmly believe that every Canadian should be made aware of, as it is an excellent example of how Big Business and politics works in Canada, and of how these elements in Canada have continuously contradicted the ideals and values that Canadians have stood for. The entire project was little more than the fulfillment of one man's megalomaniacal vision, regardless of the human and environmental consequences. And it speaks volumes of how we have continued to uncerimoniously trounce upon the rights and culture of the Natives. Electric Rivers is an excellent introduction for those who want undertsand this issue. Also recommended is Strangers Devour the Land by Boyce Richardson.

My name is not Tom Scully

THis book was well written

An important book about a massive mega-proejct in Quebec!

This book provides a very important record of a controversial mega-project. In Quebec, political expediency caused the construction of a massive dam complex that virtually destroyed three major wilderness rivers and flooded thousands of acres of wilderness land. The environmental consequences included mercury poisoning of fish and a major caribou drowning event. Yet this project received almost no notice south of the Canadian border. This book is just about the only written record of the events leading up to this project. Since the quebec government continues to make noises about new hydro mega-projects, this is a must read book for the environmentally conscious. Though not inspired writing, the research is sound.