The Northward Diversion of the Eastmain and Opinaca Rivers as Proposed: An Assessment of Impacts on the Native Community at Eastmain Village, Part II – Social and Economic Impacts.

• Main Author: Feit, Harvey A.
• Other Authors: Anthropology
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: Politics of Impact Assessment; Socio-economic Modeling; Local Expertise; Negotiating Social and Environmental Regimes; Decentralizing Development Planning; James Bay Cree; Eastmain Cree; James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; Canada; Eastmain; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24334

This report was prepared at a time when impact assessment legislation, procedures and bureaucracies were just being developed and initiated by the governments of Canada and Québec. The negotiations initiated by the James Bay Cree with governments in response to the hydro-electric project on their la...