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Pipelines, energy and natural resources

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Changing perspectives...


Ten years ago, members of the Tahltan nation in northern British Columbia were blockading roads to prevent the opening of the Red Chris copper mine, concerned about its potential environmental impacts. Today, hundreds of Tahltan work at the mine, their communities reap millions of dollars in grants and royalties from it, their corporate arm does big business with it, and their government has a powerful voice in its future.

For the Tahltan, it seems like a success story, a case study in asserting Indigenous rights and winning concrete benefits from extractive industries operating on their traditional lands.


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But as the rush for critical metals turbocharges demand for copper, that same mine, and several others proposed for Tahltan territory, might pose serious risks for other Indigenous groups across the border in Alaska.

It’s an example of how, even in places where Indigenous peoples have won a degree of power, the costs and the rewards of the critical metals rush still aren’t being spread around equally.
 
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Where did you say they need to reverse those laws, I missed it. You have talked a bunch about there being no proposals on the table and oh yes one pipeline would be good but I failed to see where you mentioned the red lines that Trudeau drew that Carney hasn't rubbed out yet. If you did, and I missed it, I apologize but so far I see hugs and kisses for Carney and no holding him to account
 
It’s an example of how, even in places where Indigenous peoples have won a degree of power, the costs and the rewards of the critical metals rush still aren’t being spread around equally.
US groups are probably SOL, but for everyone in Canada there's a solution. All the royalties and rents and whatnot go into the federal pot instead of to whomever happened to luck out by being in a right-place-at-right-time, and the federal government distributes to communities on the basis of need: for clean water, waste management, education, housing, etc.
 
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