The Full Panel Environmental Assessment hearing for LCHP commenced March 4, 2011 and is expected to last until April 16, 2011.

"There is no provincial market for this energy. This project will destroy the Churchill and its watershed just to leave a legacy for Danny Williams," said Roberta Benefiel, Grand (a.k.a.Churchill) Waterkeeper. "It is not clean, not green and sadly not needed, here or elsewhere."

"If the Upper Churchill Project was Joey Smallwood's' mistake when he gave power to Québec for less than a penny a kilowatt, this project is Danny's Delusion. If this legacy project goes forward, power will be given away at a highly discounted rate for thirty-five years. It's unacceptable and the people of Labrador don't support it," said Sierra Club Canada campaigner Bruno Marcocchio.

The NunatuKavut, formerly known as the Labrador Métis Nation, filed a court application March 1, 2011 to obtain an injunction to halt the environmental panel hearings claiming their constitutional rights to consultation have not been taken seriously by the provincial government, the environmental panel or by the developer Nalcor Energy.

"In order to make 'green' energy, they're flooding Labrador. It's been the same story with the Upper Churchill. They flooded an area nearly the size of the Avalon Peninsula to bring 'green' energy down into North America. We only heard about this Muskrat Falls deal the day before on the news. No one in government called us about it until after the news release. We're saying this is our territory. We've always been here. This is our home. Why are we being excluded?" said Chris Montague, president of NunatuKavut.

"Our consent is required, but it has not yet been obtained. This will only happen if the Innu people are satisfied that the benefits of this project will outweigh the impact" Joseph Riche, grand chief of the Innu Nation said.