Where the Rivers Meet : Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories / Carly A. Dokis ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
2015
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Where the Rivers Meet : Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories / Carly A. Dokis ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Imprint
Vancouver : UBC Press, [2015]
Description
xxvii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Nature, history, society.
Formatted Contents Note
"Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way": The Community Hearing Process
"A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose": Perceptions of Industrial Impacts
Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement
Consultation and Other Legitimating Practices.
"A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose": Perceptions of Industrial Impacts
Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement
Consultation and Other Legitimating Practices.
Summary
"Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very act of participation used as a means to legitimize project approvals? Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would transport gas from the western subarctic to Alberta, and would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North. Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision-making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that despite Aboriginal involvement, the evaluation of such projects remains rooted in non-local beliefs about the nature of the environment, the commodification of land, and the inevitability of a hydrocarbon-based economy."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
Available Note
Issued also in electronic format.
Call Number
KEN5929.7.B43 D64 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9780774828451 (bound)
0774828455 (bound)
9780774828475 (pdf)
9780774828482 (epub)
0774828463
9780774828468
0774828455 (bound)
9780774828475 (pdf)
9780774828482 (epub)
0774828463
9780774828468
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