Magpie River, QU gets legal rights

"The Nature of Things" (season 61, episode 29) discusses how the Magpie River (the last un-dammed river in Quebec) has legal rights and therefore is prevented legally from being dammed or its natural-ness being significantly reduced.

legal person-hood

the rights of nature that the natural entities such as rivers or forests have legal right to exist.

corporations have legal rights. (used as way for owners of corporation to avoid personal responsibility) and natural person-hood is equivalent although diametrically opposed as in social conscience.

reason for the thing is that preserving rights of rivers means preserving rights of people to water.

Ecuador and New Zealand have also granted legal person-hood to natural entities .

gives Magpie River nine rights, including:

the right to exist,

to flow,

to be preserved,

to be protected,

to remain natural

the right to perform essential functions within a legal system

right to be free from pollution

right to sue.