There are a variety of abbreviations used in discussions about Manitoba Hydro projects and Northern Indigenous Communities. Not sure what something means? Check out this list! Have you come across an abbreviation not on the list? Contact us to have it added!
- AEA – Adverse Effects Agreement
- ATK – Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge
- CCME – Canadian Council of Ministers for the Environment
- CEA – Cumulative Effects Assessment
- CEC – Clean Environment Commission (Also referred to as MCEC – Manitoba Clean Environment Commission)
- CED – Community Economic Development
- CNP – Cree Nation Partners [Tataskweyak Cree Nation and War Lake First Nation]
- COSEWIC – Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
- CRD – Churchill River Diversion
- EA – Environmental Assessment
- EE – Environmental Evaluation
- EIS – Environmental Impact Statement
- FLCN – Fox Lake Cree Nation
- FPIC – Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
- IK – Indigenous Knowledge
- KCN – Keeyask Cree Nation
- KGS – Keeyask Generating Station
- LWR – Lake Winnipeg Regulation project
- NCN – Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation
- NFA – Northern Flood Agreement (Download a copy here.)
- NFAT – Needs For and Alternatives To
- NRTA – Natural Resources Transfer Act
- RCEA – Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment
- ROI – Region of Interest
- RSC – Regional Study Component
- SARA – Species at Risk Act
- SCC – Supreme Court of Canada
- SIL – South Indian Lake
- TCN – Tataskweyak Cree Nation
- TEK – Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- UNDRIP – United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Download a copy here.)
- VEC – Valued Ecological Component
- WLFN – War Lake First Nation
- WSK – Western Scientific Knowledge
- YFFN – York Factory First Nation
Note: This list has been taken from “In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development”, edited by Aimée Craft and Jill Blakley. This book can be purchased here. Some additional abbreviations have been added.
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