The Washington Post ... Aboriginal Canadians from Quebec to British Columbia are asserting their rights. Energized by a 2004 Supreme Court decision that requires governments to “consult and accommodate” aboriginal groups before miners and oil and gas drillers encroach on their lands, the natives have blocked half a dozen major projects since the court ruling. That includes a proposed $6 billion oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean and a shale gas project in the eastern province of New Brunswick. The natives’ activism complicates Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s grand plan to boost the Canadian economy with C$650 billion worth of natural-resource projects over the next decade in a quest to make the nation an “energy superpower.” Among the government’s priorities are mining projects in the Ring of Fire region of Ontario, stepped-up oil extraction from Alberta’s tar sands and natural gas exploration in British Columbia....
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:39:28 +0000
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