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Power to the People

Climate change activist Melina Laboucan Massimo travels to visionary indigenous communities to discover innovative clean energy and sustainability stories that guide the way to our post carbon future.

  • Teslin, Yk
    Saturday, April 27
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    With their lumber mill facing an uncertain future, members of the Teslin Tlingit Nation found a way to turn a negative into a positive. Milling their waste wood into biomass fuel, new high efficiency boilers are now cost effectively heating homes in their community.
  • Teslin, Yk
    Thursday, May 2
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    With their lumber mill facing an uncertain future, members of the Teslin Tlingit Nation found a way to turn a negative into a positive. Milling their waste wood into biomass fuel, new high efficiency boilers are now cost effectively heating homes in their community.
  • Kanaka Bar, Bc
    Saturday, May 4
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Situated in the hottest place in Canada, the Kanaka Bar Indian Band know firsthand the rising threats of climate change. See how they're adapting through innovative approaches to water, food, energy and resource security that are now garnering national praise.
  • Kanaka Bar, Bc
    Thursday, May 9
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Situated in the hottest place in Canada, the Kanaka Bar Indian Band know firsthand the rising threats of climate change. See how they're adapting through innovative approaches to water, food, energy and resource security that are now garnering national praise.
  • Tofino, Bc
    Saturday, May 11
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Geothermal energy is generated by heat stored below the Earth's surface. The Tla-o-qui-aht Nation is harnessing this renewable energy through a geoexchange system to cost effectively heat and cool their homes and buildings.
  • Tofino, Bc
    Thursday, May 16
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Geothermal energy is generated by heat stored below the Earth's surface. The Tla-o-qui-aht Nation is harnessing this renewable energy through a geoexchange system to cost effectively heat and cool their homes and buildings.
  • Bella Coola, Bc
    Saturday, May 18
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    In many parts of the country, building and maintaining sufficient housing on reserve is a constant challenge. The Nuxalk Nation looked inward for solutions to their housing problems and now become a homegrown model for construction capacity.
  • Bella Coola, Bc
    Thursday, May 23
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    In many parts of the country, building and maintaining sufficient housing on reserve is a constant challenge. The Nuxalk Nation looked inward for solutions to their housing problems and now become a homegrown model for construction capacity.
  • Listuguj, Qc
    Saturday, May 25
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Situated in Canada's 'Saudi Arabia' of wind, three Mi'gmaq communities faced an uphill struggle to stake their claim in the Gaspe Bay's booming wind energy sector. Now that effort is paying off with long term economic and social benefits.
  • Listuguj, Qc
    Thursday, May 30
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Situated in Canada's 'Saudi Arabia' of wind, three Mi'gmaq communities faced an uphill struggle to stake their claim in the Gaspe Bay's booming wind energy sector. Now that effort is paying off with long term economic and social benefits.
  • Gull Bay, On
    Saturday, June 1
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    For some remote Indigenous communities north of Thunder Bay, connecting to the Ontario hydro grid will never be a reality. Gull Bay First Nation found the means to create their own 'micro grid' using solar energy to offset their use of diesel power.
  • Gull Bay, On
    Thursday, June 6
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    For some remote Indigenous communities north of Thunder Bay, connecting to the Ontario hydro grid will never be a reality. Gull Bay First Nation found the means to create their own 'micro grid' using solar energy to offset their use of diesel power.
  • Little Buffalo, Ab
    Saturday, June 8
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Growing up in the Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, AB, Melina Laboucan Massimo has experienced the detrimental effects of Oil Sands extraction. Today it's made her one of Canada's leading climate change campaigners and the host of Power to the People.
  • Little Buffalo, Ab
    Thursday, June 13
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Growing up in the Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, AB, Melina Laboucan Massimo has experienced the detrimental effects of Oil Sands extraction. Today it's made her one of Canada's leading climate change campaigners and the host of Power to the People.
  • Atlin, Bc
    Saturday, June 15
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    There are roughly 300 off grid Indigenous communities across Canada, who continue to rely on diesel generated power. The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC is one of the few First Nations who've successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of clean, renewable energy.
  • Atlin, Bc
    Thursday, June 20
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    There are roughly 300 off grid Indigenous communities across Canada, who continue to rely on diesel generated power. The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC is one of the few First Nations who've successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of clean, renewable energy.
  • Kluane, Yk
    Saturday, June 22
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Long before the inception of one of Canada's most picturesque national parks, this remote part of the Yukon was the ancestral home of the Kluane First Nation. With climate change re-shaping their environment, the Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy to empower their people into the future.
  • Kluane, Yk
    Thursday, June 27
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Long before the inception of one of Canada's most picturesque national parks, this remote part of the Yukon was the ancestral home of the Kluane First Nation. With climate change re-shaping their environment, the Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy to empower their people into the future.
  • Six Nations of the Grand River, On
    Saturday, June 29
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Home to the largest First Nations population in Canada, Six Nations established a corporation to manage economic opportunities on behalf of their people. That effort now sees Six Nations invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the nation.
  • Six Nations of the Grand River, On
    Thursday, July 4
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Home to the largest First Nations population in Canada, Six Nations established a corporation to manage economic opportunities on behalf of their people. That effort now sees Six Nations invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the nation.
  • Alert Bay, Bc
    Saturday, July 6
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred of the Namgis, Tlowit'sis and Mamalilikala Nation leads a group opposed to a commercial salmon farm on their traditional territory. At stake is the west coast wild salmon population and the threat that open net salmon farms pose to them. See why their movement is gaining local and international support

 

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  • Haida Gwaii, Bc
    Thursday, April 25
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and off the BC hydro grid, the Haida Nation relies on diesel generators to power their communities. Now, a home-grown group is looking to the wind, sun and sea to offset their reliance on fossil fuels.
  • Haida Gwaii, Bc
    Saturday, April 20
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and off the BC hydro grid, the Haida Nation relies on diesel generators to power their communities. Now, a home-grown group is looking to the wind, sun and sea to offset their reliance on fossil fuels.
  • Sechelt, Bc
    Thursday, April 18
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    The shishalh (Sechelt) Nation is located on the south coast of British Columbia in a territory gifted with steep mountains, fast flowing rivers and streams. Harnessing the natural power of gravity and water is now empowering their community through run of the river hydroelectric energy.
  • Sechelt, Bc
    Saturday, April 13
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    The shishalh (Sechelt) Nation is located on the south coast of British Columbia in a territory gifted with steep mountains, fast flowing rivers and streams. Harnessing the natural power of gravity and water is now empowering their community through run of the river hydroelectric energy.
  • Alert Bay, Bc
    Thursday, April 11
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred of the Namgis, Tlowit'sis and Mamalilikala Nation leads a group opposed to a commercial salmon farm on their traditional territory. At stake is the west coast wild salmon population and the threat that open net salmon farms pose to them. See why their movement is gaining local and international support
  • Alert Bay, Bc
    Saturday, April 6
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred of the Namgis, Tlowit'sis and Mamalilikala Nation leads a group opposed to a commercial salmon farm on their traditional territory. At stake is the west coast wild salmon population and the threat that open net salmon farms pose to them. See why their movement is gaining local and international support
  • Six Nations of the Grand River, On
    Thursday, April 4
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Home to the largest First Nations population in Canada, Six Nations established a corporation to manage economic opportunities on behalf of their people. That effort now sees Six Nations invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the nation.
  • Six Nations of the Grand River, On
    Saturday, March 30
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Home to the largest First Nations population in Canada, Six Nations established a corporation to manage economic opportunities on behalf of their people. That effort now sees Six Nations invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the nation.
  • Kluane, Yk
    Thursday, March 28
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Long before the inception of one of Canada's most picturesque national parks, this remote part of the Yukon was the ancestral home of the Kluane First Nation. With climate change re-shaping their environment, the Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy to empower their people into the future.
  • Kluane, Yk
    Saturday, March 23
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Long before the inception of one of Canada's most picturesque national parks, this remote part of the Yukon was the ancestral home of the Kluane First Nation. With climate change re-shaping their environment, the Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy to empower their people into the future.
  • Atlin, Bc
    Thursday, March 21
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    There are roughly 300 off grid Indigenous communities across Canada, who continue to rely on diesel generated power. The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC is one of the few First Nations who've successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of clean, renewable energy.
  • Atlin, Bc
    Saturday, March 16
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    There are roughly 300 off grid Indigenous communities across Canada, who continue to rely on diesel generated power. The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC is one of the few First Nations who've successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of clean, renewable energy.
  • Little Buffalo, Ab
    Thursday, March 14
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    Growing up in the Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, AB, Melina Laboucan Massimo has experienced the detrimental effects of Oil Sands extraction. Today it's made her one of Canada's leading climate change campaigners and the host of Power to the People.
  • Little Buffalo, Ab
    Saturday, March 9
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Growing up in the Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, AB, Melina Laboucan Massimo has experienced the detrimental effects of Oil Sands extraction. Today it's made her one of Canada's leading climate change campaigners and the host of Power to the People.
  • Gull Bay, On
    Thursday, March 7
    3:00 am on FNX 9.3
    For some remote Indigenous communities north of Thunder Bay, connecting to the Ontario hydro grid will never be a reality. Gull Bay First Nation found the means to create their own 'micro grid' using solar energy to offset their use of diesel power.
  • Gull Bay, On
    Saturday, March 2
    6:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    For some remote Indigenous communities north of Thunder Bay, connecting to the Ontario hydro grid will never be a reality. Gull Bay First Nation found the means to create their own 'micro grid' using solar energy to offset their use of diesel power.