Aboriginal Peoples score 200 legal wins in Canada's resources sector

摘要

Pipelines, energy exports, tracking, clear-cuts, tailings ponds and access to resources are daily in the news as the industry faces push-back on traditional lands from natives who feel that their way of life is threatened. But what's different now is that the tone of the dialogue is changing - and not necessarily for the better. For example, here is a quote from Northern News of Gino Chi-taroni, president of the Northern Prospectors Association, recently speaking in Kirkland Lake, Ont.: "We are now at a crossroads, where our whole industry and way of life is completely threatened ... the empowerment of First Nations at the expense of the mining and exploration industry ... this is a massive sleeper problem that nobody wants to talk about in the press, because those who do may be targeted for reprisals and branded bigots and racists."