Pimicikamak First Nation, Peguis First Nation, the Interfaith Task Force on Hydro Development and Manitoba Wildlands held a news conference Tuesday, September 10, 2013, to demand the CEC delay its public hearings on Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask generating station project on the lower Nelson River. The groups have filed motions filed with the CEC to secure a full Regional Cumulative Environmental Assessment (RCEA) of hydro-electric projects across Manitoba prior to any further hydro projects - exactly what the CEC outlined in its recent report on the Bipole III transmission line project.

"A regional cumulative effects assessment is needed for all Manitoba Hydro projects and associated infrastructure in the Nelson River sub-watershed. The result of such an assessment would be a greater understanding of the impacts of the individual projects, as well as the cumulative impacts of all projects together." - From the CEC Report on Bipole 3.

Gaile Whelan-Enns, Director of Manitoba Wildlands, commented; "The CEC is right. They were right in 2004, also. An independent cumulative effects assessment of our Hydro system is urgently needed."