Part I: Idle No More
By William Walter Kay
In Canada, as in several countries (Australia, Brazil, and the USA), the international environmental movement has fashioned a considerable auxiliary out of Indigenous peoples. Between December 2012 and February 2013 Canada’s eco-Aboriginal auxiliary briefly showed its fangs in an aborted uprising operating under the banner “Idle No More.”
This posting (the first of a series dealing with the green wing of Canada’s Aboriginal Industry) revisits the Idle No More episode with a focus on the roles played by: a supportive mass media; compliant police executives; and corrupt, extremist Aboriginal elites…..To Read More….
Part II: The
Mobilization of Aboriginal Opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
By
William Walter Kay
Intro
Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will
transport 525,000 barrels of petroleum per day from Alberta’s oil sands to a
new Pacific Coast terminal at Kitimat, BC. This 1,177 kilometre pipeline and
related facilities will cost $6.5 billion to build. The dollar value of the oil
that will ultimately flow through the Northern Gateway to the insatiable Asian
market is an incalculable, astronomical sum.
Governments should roll out red carpets for such obviously beneficial projects. However it is 12 years since Enbridge first floated the Northern Gateway proposal and approval has yet to be granted (this should happen in June 2014).
Northern Gateway is one of five proposed pipelines being obstructed by the international environmental movement’s attempted siege of Alberta’s oil sands. Of the many stratagems environmentalists have deployed against the Northern Gateway, one of the more effective has been the mobilization of an aboriginal opposition.
In 2012 Enbridge claimed 60% of native communities along the pipeline route had accepted the company’s offer of an equity state in the pipeline. This figure is disputed. The deals are confidential and native leaders are reluctant to publicly support the Northern Gateway.
In any event, environmentalists have fostered militant opposition to the Northern Gateway among a number of First Nation communities located both in BC’s central interior and along BC’s northern coast – areas critical to the Northern Gateway.
Environmentalists have also spread a mythology about their native supporters regarding: their population sizes, the distinctness of their cultures, the representativeness of their internal governance structures, the persistence of their traditional lifestyles, etc.
This posting seeks to dispel these myths and to expose the natives opposing the Northern Gateway to be a mercenary auxiliary devoid of popular legitimacy, i.e. lacking any “social licence” themselves. ….To Read More….
Governments should roll out red carpets for such obviously beneficial projects. However it is 12 years since Enbridge first floated the Northern Gateway proposal and approval has yet to be granted (this should happen in June 2014).
Northern Gateway is one of five proposed pipelines being obstructed by the international environmental movement’s attempted siege of Alberta’s oil sands. Of the many stratagems environmentalists have deployed against the Northern Gateway, one of the more effective has been the mobilization of an aboriginal opposition.
In 2012 Enbridge claimed 60% of native communities along the pipeline route had accepted the company’s offer of an equity state in the pipeline. This figure is disputed. The deals are confidential and native leaders are reluctant to publicly support the Northern Gateway.
In any event, environmentalists have fostered militant opposition to the Northern Gateway among a number of First Nation communities located both in BC’s central interior and along BC’s northern coast – areas critical to the Northern Gateway.
Environmentalists have also spread a mythology about their native supporters regarding: their population sizes, the distinctness of their cultures, the representativeness of their internal governance structures, the persistence of their traditional lifestyles, etc.
This posting seeks to dispel these myths and to expose the natives opposing the Northern Gateway to be a mercenary auxiliary devoid of popular legitimacy, i.e. lacking any “social licence” themselves. ….To Read More….
Since their focus is so fixed on
their views they have no room for the views of others. It’s invariably a huge waste of time trying
to reason with these people because they have found the ‘true faith’; service
to the Earth Goddess, Gaia! The ancient Druidic nature worshippers would have been proud of their philosophical
descendents. The only thing left is
human sacrifices. Oh….wait…..that’s
already been accomplished. A case could
easily be made to show their policies, and the programs they support, are
responsible for the unnecessary deaths of over 100 million people since the ban
on DDT in 1972. And Nixon was
responsible!
There are three things the Canadian government should do to fix this. Dump all these phony university programs on "aboriginal" studies, stop paying these idiotic salaries to aboriginal 'despots' for just being there and tell them to assimilate or not as they choose and face the consequences for their decision.
There are three things the Canadian government should do to fix this. Dump all these phony university programs on "aboriginal" studies, stop paying these idiotic salaries to aboriginal 'despots' for just being there and tell them to assimilate or not as they choose and face the consequences for their decision.
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