Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Map of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project. VII
4. Foreword IX
5. Introduction: How a Public Utility Became a “Predatory Formation” 1
6. Section One: The Threat Downstream: A Sacrifice Zone in Labrador
7. 1. Hydraulic Imperialism and the Infrastructure of Canadian Colonialism 37
8. 2. Exploring the Health and Well-being Concerns of Labrador Land Protectors 53
9. 3. “Industrial Colonization”: Muskrat Falls in a Settler-Colonial Context 65
10. 4. Muskrat Falls: Methylmercury, Food Security, and Canadian Hydroelectric Development 81
11. 5. Stability of the North Spur at Muskrat Falls 111
12. Section Two: Political Economy of an “Investment without Economics”
13. 6. Because Financialization: How Muskrat Falls Can Succeed as an Investment and Fail as a Public Utility 133
14. 7. Will Muskrat Falls Pay Dividends? 151
15. 8. Muskrat Falls: Investment without Economics 181
16. Section Three: Representing and Resisting the Crisis: Journalism, Art, and Fiction
17. 9. Muskrat Falls and the Imperative to Decolonize Journalism 205
18. 10. Criminalizing Journalism: Justin Brake and The Independent 215
19. 11. Confronting Recklessness: The Role of the Uncle Gnarley Blog 239
20. 12. Art and Activism at Muskrat Falls 265
21. 13. Embodying Crisis 277
22. 14. Words Spoken before All Others: Ashes and Penance 297
23. 15. The Fever 305
24. 16. When She Said to Decolonize 311
25. Contributors 317