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"We can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." — The Word of Our Dan, February 19, 2008.

Friday, January 30, 2009

In the general vicinity

The provincial government's tardy intervention in the Quebec government's environmental review of the La Romaine hydro proposal has a number of curiosities in it, including the following map detailed below, which is titled Known Archaeological Sites in the vicinity of the Romaine Watershed
Most of the sites portrayed as being "in the vicinity" are those uncovered during past archaeological work done in conjunction with the Trans-Labrador Highway project and the proposed Lower Churchill project. These are the cluster of sites on the northern edge of the above map, up to 230km away from the closest of the four proposed La Romaine generating stations, La Romaine 4. The location of LR4 is marked by the red dot on the following map, with circle of 230km radius, centred on LR4, indicated in purple:
By the same standard, archaeological sites within the purple circle below, which are 230km or less from the Gull Island location, are also in "the vicinity" of it. This encompasses an area from the reservoir in the west, north to Harp Lake and almost to Postville, east almost to the outskirts of Rigolet, and south to the Quebec-Labrador border.

If Muskrat Falls were ever to be added to the scheme, another purple circle would be centred about 50km northeast of this one; a circle which would take in Postville and Rigolet as being in "the vicinity", as defined by the good folks at Intergovernment Affairs.

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