It appears as though the Minister is not fully aware of who was impacted, and that's what I'm trying to get at here. The greatest impact of the Taltson dam was upon the people that lived in a place called Rocher River. I am a person that is from Rocher River. What happened there was the school burned down a few years before the Taltson dam was constructed. Many people felt that was deliberate, but the bottom line is, there was a group of people living there in an organized community. It had stores, two stores. They had a school, and they were a regular functioning community, and suddenly, after the school burned down, the people started moving. The people moved to the river to trap, trap on the rivers, continued to use Taltson as basically a lifeline for all the people there, and then, the dam was ---
Tom Beaulieu on Question 542-18(3): Taltson Hydroelectric Project
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 2019. See this statement in context.
Question 542-18(3): Taltson Hydroelectric Project
Oral Questions
February 11th, 2019
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