Muskrat Falls

Lisa Moore is the author of the short story collections Something for Everyone, Open, and Degrees of Nakedness and the novels Alligator, Caught, February, and This Is How We Love, as well as the young adult novel Flannery. She has co-edited, along with Dede Crane, 24 True Stories About Birth by Canadian Authors, co-edited The Democracy Cookbook with Alex Marland, and co-edited, with Stephen Crocker, Muskrat Falls: How A Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Lisa has also edited four anthologies of short fiction and is a co-librettist for the opera February, based on her novel by the same name. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

"This searing indictment—economically, scientifically, politically, morally, artistically—of the Muskrat Falls development is a must-read for anyone affected by, or concerned about, the future of Indigenous Peoples, the state, and hydro power, both in Labrador and in Canada generally." - Daniel Macfarlane, author of Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall "Muskrat Falls delves deeply and widely into what economically, environmentally and culturally ails the development....It's not light reading, but it is accessible, and given human face and voice where possible. - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram

• Map of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric ProjectForeword Warren CariouIntroduction: How a Public Utility Became a "Predatory Formation" Stephen CrockerSection One: The Threat Downstream: A Sacrifice Zone in LabradorHydraulic Imperialism and the Infrastructure of Canadian Colonialism Shiri PasternakExploring the Health and Well-being Concerns of Labrador Land Protectors Jessica Penney"Industrial Colonization": Muskrat Falls in a Settler-Colonial Context Neria AylwardMuskrat Falls: Methylmercury, Food Security, and Canadian Hydroelectric Development Ryan S. D. Calder, Amina T. Schartup, Trevor Bell, and Elsie M. SunderlandStability of the North Spur at Muskrat Falls Stig Bernander and Lennart ElfgrenSection Two: Political Economy of an "Investment without Economics"Because Financialization: How Muskrat Falls Can Succeed as an Investment and Fail as a Public Utility Stephen CrockerWill Muskrat Falls Pay Dividends? David VardyMuskrat Falls: Investment without Economics James P. Feehan  Section Three: Representing and Resisting the Crisis: Journalism, Art, and FictionMuskrat Falls and the Imperative to Decolonize Journalism Justin BrakeCriminalizing Journalism: Justin Brake and The Independent Robin WhitakerConfronting Recklessness: The Role of the Uncle Gnarley Blog Des SullivanArt and Activism at Muskrat Falls Jennifer DyerEmbodying Crisis Lisa MooreWords Spoken before All Others: Ashes and Penance Gerald VaanderingThe Fever Rhonda PelleyWhen She Said to Decolonize Tracey Doherty