SOSC 1009 Lecture : major objective of the Cree and Inuit in signing the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement was to protect the environment and thus secure their way of life based on harvesting activities.docx
Document Summary
Major objective of the cree and inuit in signing the 1975 james bay and northern quebec. Agreement was to protect the environment and thus secure their way of life based on harvesting activities. The agreement contained pioneering provisions for environmental assessment; yet those provisions did not meet many of the expectations of the native people. >no on needs electricity right now it is going to be exported for the next 30 years, it will supply the aluminum pollute the rivers. >after the phase 1 of the project everything was out of control, there were impacts even though people were told there will be no impacts. >beluga whale is dying off because of the industrial pollution. >aluminum involved in the project itself is a very toxic chemical therefore it has a great negative impact on animals and plants. >they called it a waste land for those who lived there (aboriginal people) it was far from waste.
