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 Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation is based in Nelson House, Manitoba, about 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg and 80 kilometres west of Thompson.
NCN has around 4,000 members living in Nelson House, South Indian Lake, Leaf Rapids, Thompson, Brandon and Winnipeg. More than 60 percent of our members are between 13 and 30 years of age.
In 2006, NCN signed the historic Wuskwatim Project Development Agreement with Manitoba Hydro to build the Wuskwatim hydroelectric generation project, estimated to cost $1 billion. It will see a 200-megawatt hydroelectric generating station built at Taskinigahp Falls, about 40 kilometres downstream of Nelson House in NCN’s resource management area.
It provides for NCN to own up to 33 per cent of the project and related revenues once project loans are repaid, along with job opportunities for qualified NCN Members and business opportunities for NCN businesses and joint-venture business partnerships during construction. The project is expected to be completed around 2012. |
