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The Complicated History Of Hydro-Québec

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Hydro-Québec is the fourth largest hydroelectric company on Earth. New Hampshire Public Radio's 'Outside/In' digs into the fraught history of the utility in a four-part series called 'Powerline.'"

From our friends at the podcast Outside/In, the story of how a massive, state-owned utility company came to be a symbol of the French-Canadian people.

It’s also the story of how a company, with all of the force of a colonial culture behind it, used its power to try to push Québec’s original occupants — its indigenous people — to one side. It’s the story of how that effort led to something that has become its own kind of revolution in Canada: native people pushing to regain power over their own lives and culture.

This month on Brave Little State, we're featuring the first of Outside/In's four-part series, "Powerline." Find the complete series here.

This episode of Outside/In was produced by Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy, with help from Taylor Quimby, Jimmy Gutierrez, Ben Henry, Nick Capodice, Lauren Chooljian and Maureen McMurray.

Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. Their theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Other music in the episode was by Podington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions and Komiku.

Brave Little State is made possible by the VPR Innovation Fund. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons

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Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. His work has won several local broadcast journalism awards, and he was a 2013 Steinbrenner Institute Environmental Media Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
Hannah McCarthy is the Couch Fellow at NHPR. She will spend a year working as a reporter in the newsroom, and as a producer on "Word of Mouth," and "Outside/In." Hannah received her M.A. in journalism from New York University, where she studied longform non-fiction writing and audio production. While in New York, Hannah worked as a reporter for Bedford + Bowery and interned at WNYC's "Death, Sex and Money" podcast.
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