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Where the rivers meet : pipelines, participatory resource management, and Aboriginal-state relations in the Northwest Territories / Carly A. Dokis.
Loaned to Another Library E99.B376 D64 2015
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dokis, Carly A. (Carly Ann), 1978- author.
- Series:
- Nature, history, society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mackenzie Gas Project.
- Bearlake Indians--Northwest Territories--Government relations.
- Bearlake Indians.
- Environmental impact analysis--Northwest Territories--Decision making.
- Environmental impact analysis.
- Natural gas pipelines--Environmental aspects--Northwest Territories.
- Natural gas pipelines.
- Natural gas pipelines--Social aspects--Northwest Territories.
- Natural gas pipelines--Political aspects--Northwest Territories.
- Natural resources--Northwest Territories--Management.
- Natural resources.
- Environmental conditions.
- Management.
- Natural gas pipelines--Political aspects.
- Natural gas pipelines--Social aspects.
- Natural gas pipelines--Environmental aspects.
- Decision making.
- Northwest Territories--Environmental conditions.
- Northwest Territories.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 "Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way": The Community Hearing Process 32
- 2 "A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose": Perceptions of Industrial Impacts 63
- 3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement 91
- 4 Consultation and Other Legitimating Practices 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Dokis, Carly A. (Carly Ann), 1978-, author. Where the rivers meet.
- ISBN:
- 9780774828451
- 0774828455
- OCLC:
- 895731072
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