Employment Relations in the Neostaples Resource Economy: Impact Benefit Agreements and Aboriginal Governance in Canada’s Nickel Mining Industry

Mills, Suzanne; Sweeney, Brendan

doi:10.1080/19187033.2013.11674980

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“…In the framework of the IBA, a consortium of Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq businesses, called Nuvimmiut, was created. It works on contracts with Raglan, which allows additional benefits to be provided to communities [46,47].…”

Section: Beneficiary Mode: Nunavik Canadamentioning

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Benefit Sharing in the Arctic: A Systematic View

Petrov

Tysiachniouk

2019

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Benefit sharing is a key concept for sustainable development in communities affected by the extractive industry. In the Arctic, where extractive activities have been growing, a comprehensive and systematic understanding of benefit sharing frameworks is especially critical. The goal of this paper is to develop a synthesis and advance the theory of benefit sharing frameworks in the Arctic. Based on previously published research, a review of literature, a desktop analysis of national legislation, as well as by capitalizing on the original case studies, this paper analyzes benefit sharing arrangements and develops the typology of benefit sharing regimes in the Arctic. It also discusses the examples of various regimes in Russia, Alaska, and Canada. Each regime is described by a combination of principles, modes, mechanisms, and scales of benefit sharing. Although not exhaustive or entirely comprehensive, this systematization and proposed typologies appear to be useful for streamlining the analysis and improving understanding of benefit sharing in the extractive sector. The paper has not identified an ideal benefit sharing regime in the Arctic, but revealed the advantages and pitfalls of different existing arrangements. In the future, the best regimes –in respect to sustainable development would support the transition from benefit sharing to benefit co-management.

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Section: Beneficiary Mode: Nunavik Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Benefit Sharing in the Arctic: A Systematic View

Petrov

Tysiachniouk

2019

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“…Benefits plans are different from "impact benefits agreements" (IBAs), a process or mechanism common in the mining industry which, owing to its territoriality, has a history associated with the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. IBAs are increasingly used to include locally impacted peoples in planning and governance processes for mining projects on traditional lands, such as was the case at Voisey's Bay (Mills & Sweeney, 2013). It would be wrong to attribute Newfoundland's new wealth, especially its falling unemployment and rising wages, solely to endogenous growth related to resource development.…”

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“…For one, Labrador is home to a significant northern Aboriginal population that does not have a statistically significant parallel on the island, in part due to the more intensive colonization and settlement of Newfoundland. The emergence of IBAs has increased the participation of Indigenous Labradorians (Inuit) in the extractive labour force and labour governance in the context of an overall retrenchment of the resource development from the forms community linkages and benefits that characterized "mature staples" economy(Mills & Sweeney, 2013). Benefits plans, in contrast, refer to benefits at the regional or provincial scale rather than at the community level.…”

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Construction-phase extended commuting and uneven regional development: Work, households and communities in Newfoundland and Labrador’s new extractive economy

Barber

2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Construction activity is intrinsic to the development of extractive industries infrastructure, requiring significant capital investment and large and varied workforces. The transience and temporary nature of this work, and the fact that local labour supplies do not meet demands in many resource-rich regions, have necessitated the development of a range of mobile labour practices. The specificity of such arrangements for construction phases remains underexplored. In particular, given that jobs requiring long commutes are framed as regional "industrial benefits" in resource development policy, the question of who can access these jobs is important. Focusing on Newfoundland and Labrador's construction workforce, this paper seeks to answer this question by reporting findings from qualitative research on the social and economic impacts of construction industry worker engagements with long-distance commuting in relation to industrial benefits objectives. Situating construction labour as a key upstream element in the Global Production Network (GPN) of the volatile Canadian resource sector, the article considers the logics that underpin participation in this type of employment. Building on recent work that develops a connection between long-distance commuting, global production and regional development, the article goes on reveal the gendered household-level dynamics of these arrangements.

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“…To Cook a Continent could have shed some light on the backward and forward linkages of oil, if for nothing because we know from theoretical currents such as the staples thesis that oil can offer some positively transforming effects and some of these claims have found empirical support in countries such as Canada, the USA, and Norway (see, for example, [9,25,26]). In this sense, we could have got a broader scorecard of oil in Africa, although it is fairly clear that the book set out to expose the ecological injustices of oil on the continent which it executes brilliantly.…”

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Oil, capitalism, and crises

Obeng‐Odoom

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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Employment Relations in the Neostaples Resource Economy: Impact Benefit Agreements and Aboriginal Governance in Canada’s Nickel Mining Industry

Cited by 36 publications

References 22 publications

Benefit Sharing in the Arctic: A Systematic View

Benefit Sharing in the Arctic: A Systematic View

Construction-phase extended commuting and uneven regional development: Work, households and communities in Newfoundland and Labrador’s new extractive economy

Oil, capitalism, and crises

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