Canadiana's video: The Mystery of Meech Lake

A story about a secretive scientist who turned water into light. HELP US MAKE MORE VIDEOS W/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thisiscanadiana CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/canadiana?sub_confirmation=1 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thisiscanadiana INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscanadiana FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thisiscanadiana WEBSITE: https://www.thisiscanadiana.com DONATE ONCE W/ PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.me/thisiscanadiana French subtitles by: Marika Lapointe The Meech Lake Accord failure: https://goo.gl/GgGwX3 And Elijah Harper's role in it: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/05/27/canada-150-when-a-man-with-an-eagle-feather-thwarted-the-high-and-mighty.html Union Carbide made a lot of money off of Carbide Willson's patent for calcium carbide production. The company would later be taken over by DOW Chemical in 1999 for $8.89 billion. Churchill Falls power plant is the 2nd largest in North America, and makes almost 1% of the world's hydroelectric power. It isn't your typical dam, but a series of dikes that direct water to a natural reservoir/lake (the generating plant is underground). It's a very controversial facility for many reasons: it flooded the traditional hunting and trapping grounds of the Innu people (and was built without their consent) and it's been at the centre of a centuries-long argument between Newfoundland/Labrador and Quebec. * Correction: The footage shown at 5:03 to 5:06 is actually Chicago—the result of a mislabeled bit of archival.