“Hydro is making our lives miserable.”
“Many of our people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder…”
“…because of the destruction we witness every day from the project, both directly and indirectly on a daily basis.”
“The medicines that we used to gather are very scarce…”
“The medicines that we had was very good. It helped us in our health, in the past, and it was gathered by the old people.”
“Our environment is dying. So are we.”
“Where the entire climate of our territory had been healthy, with clean water flowing past our homes, teaming with fish, with shorelines alive with birds and medicines, and the forest full of animals and trees, now we live in a climate of disease.”
“Our social fabric is no longer stable…”
“This dampens our spirit to hopelessness.”