Jessica Penney

Jessica is a PhD Researcher in Sociology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her family is from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut and Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, though she was raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Jessica’s work focuses on the impact of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project on Nunatsiavut Inuit wellbeing, though her most recent fieldwork travels have been postponed due to COVID-19.

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Not So Grand Plans: The Continued Erasure of Indigenous Rights in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Hydroelectric ‘Development’

In this Brief, Johnson-Castle and Penney, argue that Newfoundland and Labrador’s continued push to advance hydroelectric development – not under the auspices of recovery from COVID-19 – is in disregard of Indigenous rights and title, and risks compounding social, health and economic impacts for the whole region.

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