Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line
Decades of legal and public relations battles with First Nations have changed the way that Hydro-Quebec approaches new projects. Today, the company hires specialists who consult with impacted communit...
30 Nov 201731min
Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves
The Crees of Quebec signed a landmark agreement with their province and country. The Pessamit Innus now look to that playbook for help in their present-day fight against the provincial utility, but is...
23 Nov 201730min
Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century
Hydro-Quebec is the provincially-owned utility that helped French-Canadians stake a claim in Quebec politics and economy. As it forged ahead with two massive hydro projects, the company flooded land t...
16 Nov 201731min
Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home
This is part one of our series about how a company, with all of the force of a colonial culture behind it, tried to use its power to push original occupants—its indigenous people—to one side. It’s als...
9 Nov 201734min
Introducing: Powerline
Hydro-Québec, the world’s fourth largest hydropower producer, pumps out low carbon electricity at the cheapest rates in North America. For some, it is the key to a greener, more prosperous, future, bu...
27 Okt 20172min
Vultures Inherit the Earth
The Bicknell's Thrush is a bird that can only live in a few very very restricted places. It spends its summers in dense alpine forests in the Northeast of the US. In the winter, perhaps as many as 90 ...
26 Okt 201731min
Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging
The Ask Sam hotline has been blowing up lately! Not like the Galaxy 7, no. In a good way! So Sam, along with a couple of producers from the Outside/In team, took a moment to answer your questions abou...
12 Okt 201727min
In Too Deep
The story of Michael Proudfoot is everywhere, and the details are always more or less the same: a SCUBA diver exploring a shipwreck breaks his regulator, and surfaces in an air pocket deep in the bell...
28 Sep 201746min
