Time to stop letting FNs and environmentalists determine what resource projects Canada approves

[blackbird]

The liberal left and NDP have been bending over backwards to let FNs and enviro groups have a say on what projects get approved.  This has resulted in proposed mining projects taking ten or fifteen years to get approval.   It has also helped prevent pipelines like Energy East and Northern Gateway from proceeding.  It should be noted there are some FN bands that approve of a lot of projects too.  The Coastal Gaslink pipeline through northern B.C. was supported by all the elected councilors of FN bands along the route but opposed by unelected hereditary chiefs in the northwest.  Most, if not all the hereditary chiefs, who opposed that project do not even live anywhere near the route of the pipeline.

It's time the governments stopped bending over backwards to these opposition groups and started doing what is best for Canada.

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[TreeBeard]

We still mine coal and dig oil.  If your headline were true, do you think we would still be doing those things?

[cougar]

4 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

We still mine coal and dig oil.  If your headline were true, do you think we would still be doing those things?

He is drilled in the head.  When he wakes up he drinks a cup of cold bitumen for coffee, eats a coal sandwich for breakfast and  is munching on some old growth timber for dinner. During the night he is dreaming of big pipelines and wide spread land devastation.  Then he wakes up in his wet bed.

[Dougie93]

attempts to bypass the First Nations are not only likely to be stopped by the courts

but even if not, the First Nations are willing to engage in insurgency which will chase investment away

what politicians in Canada are want to have to deploy the army to one Oka Crisis after the next ?

particularly when Canada has practically dismantled its own army at this juncture

[herbie]

Laisser faire! It must be the belief in the Elon Musk version of the Bible.

It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven than pass a poor one through the eye of a needle.

And that that part Jesus going down on the moneylenders.....

[CdnFox]

On 2/27/2025 at 7:09 PM, TreeBeard said:

We still mine coal and dig oil.  If your headline were true, do you think we would still be doing those things?

Are you suggesting the first nations haven't played a role in delaying or eliminating oil projects? You need to read a little more history

[Zeitgeist]

Canada has caved into radical activists and ESG goals that make it very expensive and difficult to do resource development.  We over-regulate and over-tax our resource development and actual use of the commodity at the point of purchase.  Instead we sell it to less regulated markets at a discount or buy the same resources unnecessarily from less regulated markets, often in the form of finished products. 

Edited March 1 by Zeitgeist