First Nations preparing 'Eviction Notices' for Mining Companies in Ring of Fire - NetNewsledger.com
Not so great news for Ontario mining or Cliffs
Not so great news for Ontario mining or Cliffs
Good. The government pays lip service to first nations and then run rough shod over their lands when it comes to resource extraction. I hope the rest of the nations across Canada take notice and launch their own actions.First Nations preparing 'Eviction Notices' for Mining Companies in Ring of Fire - NetNewsledger.com
Not so great news for Ontario mining or Cliffs
Cliffy I 'm with you on this one. It is time for these companies to understand
Canadian interests and First Nations interests come before their interests.
The reason it's done that way is, protesting Natives hit the evening news. The uneducated viewer sees sound bite of just another native protest, and become disinterested, turn the channel or throw their arms up in disgust and frustration while uttering "Oh now what the hell are they protesting?".It's not just the companies though. Government is complicit in these activities, issuing permits and waiting for court challenges, which take forever and a day, from First Nations who should have been consulted in the first place. Meanwhile companies, permits in hand, begin work on whatever it is the permit gives them permission to do and the only recourse left for the party that wasn't consulted with is to stage some sort of protest or blockade and generally that's when things will get really out of hand. And which part gets reported in the media? This is the cycle that continues over and over again, it's pretty much as regular as the seasons.
The reason it's done that way is, protesting Natives hit the evening news. The uneducated viewer sees sound bite of just another native protest, and become disinterested, turn the channel or throw their arms up in disgust and frustration while uttering "Oh now what the hell are they protesting?".
I hate to sound like a nutter, but it seems calculated to me.
The dragging of feet, IMHO, is to frustrate the First Nations and interested parties, to the point where protests arise. Become common place, and the focus of media attention.It is calculated. It's calculated P.R. and the government (of the day) is always at the heart of it. That the government can continually deflect their own part in it over and over again to either the First Nations groups or, to a lessor extent the companies themselves, is almost machiavellian and completely baffling how they get away with it. I suppose it just all gets buried in the bureaucratic mess of the long periods of time it takes the government to do anything (people have short memories), or at least the public perception of the time it takes. (Funny how it takes decades to decide these matters but when they want to implement a new tax they can do that in three months.)
It's not just the companies though. Government is complicit in these activities, issuing permits and waiting for court challenges, which take forever and a day, from First Nations who should have been consulted in the first place. Meanwhile companies, permits in hand, begin work on whatever it is the permit gives them permission to do and the only recourse left for the party that wasn't consulted with is to stage some sort of protest or blockade and generally that's when things will get really out of hand. And which part gets reported in the media? This is the cycle that continues over and over again, it's pretty much as regular as the seasons.
This is common practice, but is not just relegated to conflicts with aboriginal groups. It seems to be just the way business is done, period.
I think it boils down to it's easier to settle up and apologize after the fact than it is to get permission, permits, approvals.... The Ford Pinto was a great example