Churchill Falls is a Labrador town built to support one of the world’s largest underground hydroelectric plants the town, once called Grand Falls and known in Innu as Patshishetshuanau, functions as a company town managed by NL Hydro, offering housing, a school, and communal facilities the Churchill Falls Generating Station is a major hydroelectric project on the Churchill River, contributing to Canada’s hydroelectric capacity, notably diverting river water to turbines, which leaves the surface falls largely reduced to a trickle.
Churchill Falls, part of a series of cataracts and rapids on the Churchill River, southwest of Michikamau Lake in west Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. Lying 250 miles (400 km) from the river’s mouth, the falls drop 245 feet (75 m), forming part of the river’s 1,100-foot (335-metre) descent within a
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