Grand Riverkeeper Labrador, Inc.

03/11/2026



Join us at noon on Sunday, March 15th for our annual Boil Up & Ice Fishing Event as Grand Riverkeeper Labrador recognizes the International Day of Action for Rivers!

Find us on the Terrington Basin by taking the road to the Sea Plane Dock that’s off Route 520 to North West River (from HVGB it’s just before the Otter Creek Cabin turnoff or just after coming from NWR). You can join us there on snowmobile by taking any trail that leads to the basin.

We’ll have signs on the road turnoff and the Labrador flag and GRK banner on the ice. Just look for the campfire and people ice-fishing.

We are partnering with long-time activist and ice-fisherman, Edward Mesher for this celebration of our river and the bounty it provides! Thanks to our amazing volunteers we’ll have hot food for all ages along with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. You’re welcome to bring along some food to share, something to sit on, and your ice-fishing gear!
This is an important year as we see NL Hydro/Nalcor and Hydro Quebec set sights on Gull Island through a very questionable MOU. One that gives Hydro Quebec the power to not only build the Gull Island Dam, but to build further dams in Labrador at any time in the future, whileaverage citizens here in Labrador are ignored completely.

The theme for this year’s event is “OUR RIVERS-OUR FUTURE”

And there’s no better time to highlight what Grand Riverkeeper Labrador and our allies have been doing to bring together peer-reviewed documents on the massive impacts of mega hydro projects on fisheries, cultures, biodiversity and more, with special emphasis on climate change and the warming in the Arctic. Handouts will be available at the event.

Let’s make this year’s event a show of support for the protection of the Grand (a.k.a. Churchill) River.

Please share this post with whomever you wish and we hope to see you on the ice!

 

 

03/08/2026

Following is a summary of a submission to the Independent Review Committee who has been tasked with examining the MOU between NL Hydro and Hydro Quebec regarding further development on the Grand (Churchill) River.

Grand Riverkeeper Labrador is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Grand (Churchill) River and its ecological integrity. Our mission includes public awareness, monitoring, research, and habitat restoration to ensure the river's water quality and ecological health for present and future generations. We are actively involved in advocating for environmental assessments of hydroelectric projects and participate in the Waterkeeper Alliance, a global network of river protection organizations.

GRK has serious concerns about the MOU between Hydro Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec) and would like to make this submission to the Independent Panel. We do understand from our review of the Committee’s mandate issued by the Province on December 15, 2025 that according to Premier Tony Wakeham, it is being established as a “public inquiry” under Part 11 of the Public Inquiries Act which grants the Committee broad authority to access information they deem necessary for determining their review. We also believe that The Act and the instructions from your mandate quoted below, give you the authority to consider any and all impacts and determine whether they are in the “best long-term interest of the people of the province”... as Premier Wakeham stated at the announcement of the Independent Review.

The attached submission addresses some concerns that we feel need to be addressed under the mandate of the best interest of the people of the province. This submission outlines these concerns and important components to consider. We have outlined some matters that we have researched, this research is rich and covers many other topics that we have addressed here. We are presenting questions about proposed economic benefits, concerns about damage to surrounding areas through contaminants such as mercury, trapped sediments, which leads to ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. and loss of cultural space for surrounding residents.

We intend to show in this letter and as many before us and many after us will document, mega dams and huge reservoirs are nowhere near as clean as proponents want you to believe. We hope that has been accomplished. They emit tons of greenhouse gas that, up to now, has not been counted or regulated. They destroy fisheries, phytoplankton, interrupt regional and global climates, especially in the Arctic; they impact the overturning of the Labrador Current, the massive ocean current that regulates climate for the entire globe; currently they are hugely more expensive than less polluting sources of energy like wind and solar.

02/22/2026

URGENT: Demand action for a new and comprehensive Federal and Provincial environmental assessment! Read the letter:
https://www.grandriverkeeperlabrador.ca/action/
Sign on to help us stop hydropower mega dams!

Grand Riverkeeper Labrador participates in the annual worldwide International Day of Action for Rivers happening March of each year

02/22/2026

Have a look at the website if you haven't visited lately. Take action to save the Grand River from hydro megadams!

10/10/2025

An article by Lorie Lee Oates

The people of Newfoundland, and especially Labrador, seem to be on the path of exploitation, leading to underdevelopment, yet again.

09/24/2025

This a great overview

Management consultant Gabe Gregory presents his economic and historic analysis of the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Hydro Quebec and Newfoundland...

07/17/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUF8rKC8dkI&t=73s&pp=ygUMZ2FiZSBncmVnb3J5

Management consultant Gabe Gregory presents his economic and historic analysis of the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Hydro Quebec and Newfoundland...