Passamit Innu Chief of Quebec Files Motion to Intervene in Northern Pass

by Nancy West, InDepthNH

The Pessamit Innu First Nation of Quebec has filed a motion to intervene in the controversial Northern Pass Transmission application process that is pending before the state Site Evaluation Committee.

In a motion filed Thursday with the Site Evaluation Committee, Rene Simon, the chief of the Pessamit Innu First Nation, said there are about 4,000 registered members. It is one of 11 aboriginal nations living in the province of Quebec.

“The Pessamit Innu have been living for 8,000 years in their Nitassinan (traditional territory) and still have the aspiration to respectfully prosper in harmony in this natural heritage,” Simon wrote. “However Hydro-Quebec production activities have profoundly affected the integrity of our Nitassinan and have directly collided with our ancestral rights.”

 

To read the Simon's Motion to Intervene, click here.

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