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By Heidi Atter & Frey Blake-Pijogge, Local Journalism Initiative Reporters, The Independent Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec has suspended geological survey work after a group of Innu land defenders blockaded the road into Gull Island, an area of the Churchill River (or Mishta-shipu, in Innu-aimum) that is culturally important to the Innu and the place where Newfoundland and Labrador and Qu\u00e9bec hope to massively expand hydroelectric development. In recent days, work trailers were moved onto the site, following the signing of a proposed agreement-in-principle between Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec and the Innu Nation, which represents the Innu communities of Sheshatshiu and Natuashish in Labrador. \u201cThey want to start the survey on the land,\u201d said Matthew Andrew, one of the land defenders at the site, through a translator. \u201cThey\u2019re not telling the community members.\u201d Andrew and other land… <\/p>\n

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By Heidi Atter & Frey Blake-Pijogge, Local Journalism Initiative Reporters, The Independent Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec has suspended geological survey work after a group of Innu land defenders blockaded the road into Gull Island, an area of the Churchill River (or Mishta-shipu, in Innu-aimum) that is culturally important to the Innu and the place where Newfoundland and Labrador and Qu\u00e9bec hope to massively expand hydroelectric development. In recent days, work trailers were moved onto the site, following the signing of a proposed agreement-in-principle between Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec and the Innu Nation, which represents the Innu communities of Sheshatshiu and Natuashish in Labrador. \u201cThey want to start the survey on the land,\u201d said Matthew Andrew, one of the land defenders at the site, through a translator. \u201cThey\u2019re not telling the community members.\u201d Andrew and other land... <\/p>\n

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