By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent A Sheshatshiu man is calling for Innu leaders to step down and for all work at Gull Island to stop after Innu Nation gave Hydro-Québec a green light to resume preliminary work before Innu have their say in a referendum. Innu Nation’s assent precedes a forthcoming vote by Innu on an agreement between Innu and the Québec public utility for the proposed hydroelectric megaproject in central Labrador and to settle a legal challenge. “I was furious. I was very upset,” said Jerome Jack, an Innu land defender and son of late Innu leader Bart Jack, who was instrumental in the Innu resistance to Muskrat Falls nearly a decade ago. “They still don’t have the consent from people, and they’re still going…
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