Hydroelectric Relicensure and Traditional Cultural Properties on Kwenitekw
A guest commentary from CRC’s Andrea Donlon and Kathy Urffer
Published at MassLive online June 9, 2021
For hundreds of years the Indigenous history of the northeast has been systematically erased. It is time to speak up to make sure that the federal government and power companies do not continue that bitter legacy….
Both hydropower companies, Great River Hydro in Vermont and New Hampshire and FirstLight Power in Massachusetts, were required to do a Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP) study, in addition to archaeology and historic building studies, to identify and address hydropower facility impacts to Native People’s cultural considerations. Regrettably, neither company has adequately engaged the Abenaki and other Native communities in this work.