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Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law

Bill Redekop

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Description:Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law by Bill Redekop, is the cautionary tale of what happens when grandiose political plans run against verdant prairie valleys. Specifically, it's the tale of backroom politicial trade-offs between governments that resulted in the building of two dams on the Souris River system in southern Saskatchewan that destroyed 80 kilometres of valley by permanent flooding.Politically inspired, economically unfeasible and environmentally ruinous, the dams became the subject of a long legal and political battle between farmers Ed and Harold Tetzlaff and the Saskatchewan government between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Ultimately, as Winnipeg lawyer Alan Scarth, who represented the brothers on a pro bono basis for years, said, 'The Tetzlaffs lost the battle [and their land, which was ultimately flooded], but won the war, for their case led to the creation of environmental law in Canada.'In addition to well-rounded profiles of many of the leading characters of the period, including Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine, Deputy Premier Eric Berntson, federal Environment Ministers Tom McMillan and Lucien Bouchard, environmentalist Elizabeth May (now national Green Party leader), and North Dakota Congressman and later Senator Orlin Hanson, Dams of Contention begins and ends with the ultimate result of the contentious dam building -- the disastrous flooding of Minot, North Dakota, in 2011.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law. To get started finding Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law by Bill Redekop, is the cautionary tale of what happens when grandiose political plans run against verdant prairie valleys. Specifically, it's the tale of backroom politicial trade-offs between governments that resulted in the building of two dams on the Souris River system in southern Saskatchewan that destroyed 80 kilometres of valley by permanent flooding.Politically inspired, economically unfeasible and environmentally ruinous, the dams became the subject of a long legal and political battle between farmers Ed and Harold Tetzlaff and the Saskatchewan government between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Ultimately, as Winnipeg lawyer Alan Scarth, who represented the brothers on a pro bono basis for years, said, 'The Tetzlaffs lost the battle [and their land, which was ultimately flooded], but won the war, for their case led to the creation of environmental law in Canada.'In addition to well-rounded profiles of many of the leading characters of the period, including Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine, Deputy Premier Eric Berntson, federal Environment Ministers Tom McMillan and Lucien Bouchard, environmentalist Elizabeth May (now national Green Party leader), and North Dakota Congressman and later Senator Orlin Hanson, Dams of Contention begins and ends with the ultimate result of the contentious dam building -- the disastrous flooding of Minot, North Dakota, in 2011.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law. To get started finding Dams of Contention: The Rafferty-Alameda Story and the Birth of Canadian Environmental Law, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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