Mud Lake is a small unincorporated community in central Labrador, Canada.
[2] In May 2017, the town was affected by severe flooding and its residents were evacuated to Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Many residents have planned a lawsuit against Nalcor Energy, the company behind the Lower Churchill Project upstream from the town which is alleged to have caused the flooding.
[4][5] An independent report on the flooding conducted in 2017 by KGS Group concluded that ice jammed up at the mouth of the Churchill River because of a combination of natural causes, forcing water over the riverbank, caused the flooding.
[6] In 2019, a Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court justice ruled that a class-action lawsuit filed by Mud Lake residents against Nalcor Energy and the provincial government related to the flooding could proceed.