Introducing: Powerline
Outside/In
NHPR
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2017
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Sam Evans Brown here, host of Outside In. |
| 0:05.0 | So this past spring and summer and fall, I've been working on something big. |
| 0:12.0 | For us, |
| 0:12.8 | Adro Quebec is a very powerful symbol. I mean, if you dismantle |
| 0:17.9 | I draw Quebec, it would be like dismantling us. All summer I've been traveling to Canada where I've been gathering stories about hydropower, you know, big dams, clean, renewable energy. |
| 0:40.0 | In Quebec we have a clean resource and we're using it in the best way and we know how and it's a privilege. |
| 0:50.8 | The thing is, every one of those electrons comes freighted with history. |
| 0:55.8 | And some of that history, it's dark. |
| 0:59.2 | It's a big discrimination in Quebec against the First Nation. We know that. We live her. We feel it just by the way they look at us, you know, we feel it. |
| 1:09.0 | Maybe you've heard stories like this before, stories about who gets to control the land below our feet. |
| 1:15.0 | They tried to make a sweet deal with the news to buy their rights for basically nothing. |
| 1:23.8 | It was unconstitutional, illegal, totally illegal. |
| 1:28.0 | But what about the electricity that flows over our heads? |
| 1:31.2 | She says to me, how to say they will never love Harugabec, never. |
| 1:36.6 | They will take generation and generation. |
| 1:39.0 | We're not perfect, but we are working with the people and we want to work with them. So with all the rest of the message |
| 1:47.3 | I hope you give this one. Coming this fall, Outside In presents Power Line, a four-part series about who holds power, who wields it, and when you've got none, how do you take it? |
| 2:00.0 | Look for all four episodes coming at you once a week starting November 9th. |
| 2:05.0 | We can't wait to share it with you. you're going to. |
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