Power to the People

Melina Laboucan-Massimo travels to her home community in Little Buffalo, where she examines the impacts of oil sands expansion and reveals a solar-powered solution.

The Kanaka Bar Indian Band near Lytton are adapting to the rising threats of climate change through innovative approaches to water, food, energy and resource security.

Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred leads a group opposed to a commercial salmon farm on their traditional territory.

The Haida Nation relies on diesel generators to power their communities, but a homegrown group is looking to the wind, sun and sea to offset their reliance on fossil fuels.

Three Mi'kmaq communities faced an uphill struggle to stake their claim in the Gaspe Bay's booming wind energy sector. Now that effort is paying off.

The shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation is harnessing the natural power of gravity and water through run-of-the-river hydroelectric energy.

The Teslin Tlingit Nation has found a way to turn a negative into a positive by milling their waste wood into biomass fuel, effectively heating homes in their community.

The Six Nations of the Grand River has invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the country.

The Nuxalk Nation looked inward for solutions to their housing problems and now they've become a homegrown model for construction capacity.

The Tla-o-qui-aht Nation is pioneering the use of geoexchange technology to cost-effectively heat and cool their homes.

The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC has successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of clean, renewable energy.

With climate change reshaping their environment, the Kluane First Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy to empower their people.

Remote Gull Bay First Nation has pioneered Canada's first fully integrated solar micro grid solution to offset their use of diesel power.