Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- 22 Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development, and the Fight to Shut the Poletti Power Plant
- 23 The Indigeneity of Environmental Justice
- 24 Energy Poverty, Justice, and Women
- 25 Energy without Injustice?
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
25 - Energy without Injustice?
Indigenous Participation in Renewable Energy Generation
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- 22 Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development, and the Fight to Shut the Poletti Power Plant
- 23 The Indigeneity of Environmental Justice
- 24 Energy Poverty, Justice, and Women
- 25 Energy without Injustice?
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
Summary
There is growing involvement of Indigenous communities in renewable energy development across their traditional territories in what is now called Canada.1 Here, we explore Indigenous participation in large-scale “green” energy generation as a response to encroachment, displacement, and dispossession wrought by the extractivist orientation of contemporary settler capitalism.
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