Oil Sands Extraction in Alberta, Canada: a Review of Impacts and Processes Concerning Indigenous Peoples

Westman, Clinton N.; Joly, Tara L.

doi:10.1007/s10745-019-0059-6

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“…The conceptual model (Figure 2 surrounded by 8 open-pit and 3 in-situ oil sands projects and is exposed to cumulative air emissions (AER 2017). Odours are a prominent issue and have created air quality concerns for Indigenous communities in the OSR, some who experience odours as much as one day in every three (WBEA 2015;Westman and Joly 2019;Dennis et al 2015).…”

Section: Air Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential components and pathways for developing Indigenous community‐based monitoring: Examples from the Canadian oil sands region

Beausoleil

Munkittrick

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et al. 2021

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Monitoring in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada". The series documents the history of monitoring in the region and critically reviews a synthesis of monitoring results published within key environmental theme areas to identify patterns of consistent responses or effects, significant gaps in knowledge and recommendations for improved monitoring, assessment and management of the region Acknowledgements: This work was funded under the Oil Sands Monitoring Program (OSM) but does not necessarily reflect the position of the OSM. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Section: Air Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential components and pathways for developing Indigenous community‐based monitoring: Examples from the Canadian oil sands region

Beausoleil

Munkittrick

Dubé

et al. 2021

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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“…Yakutia is a mining region for which traditional land use is studied in the context of natural resources extraction and the interactions between indigenous people and extractive companies [28,29]. The same issue is now an urgent one in Canada [30,31].…”

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Agriculture and land use in the North of Russia: Case study of Karelia and Yakutia

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Despite harsh climate, agriculture on the northern margins of Russia still remains the backbone of food security. Historically, in both regions studied in this article – the Republic of Karelia and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) – agricultural activities as dairy farming and even cropping were well adapted to local conditions including traditional activities such as horse breeding typical for Yakutia. Using three different sources of information – official statistics, expert interviews, and field observations – allowed us to draw a conclusion that there are both similarities and differences in agricultural development and land use of these two studied regions. The differences arise from agro-climate conditions, settlement history, specialization, and spatial pattern of economy. In both regions, farming is concentrated within the areas with most suitable natural conditions. Yet, even there, agricultural land use is shrinking, especially in Karelia. Both regions are prone to being affected by seasonality, but vary in the degree of its influence. Geographical location plays special role, and weaknesses caused by remoteness to some extent become advantage as in Yakutia. Proximity effect is controversial. In Karelia, impact of neighboring Finland is insignificant compared with the nearby second Russian city – Saint Petersburg.

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“…The tar sands cover 140,000 km 2 of land, comparable in size to the state of Florida, resulting in the exposure of species to toxic contaminants and destruction of rich boreal forest, wetland, and river ecosystems that provide habitat for wildlife (Wells et al 2008; Jordaan 2012; Arens et al 2017). Health impacts include disproportionately high rates of rare cancers and respiratory illnesses in Indigenous communities near the megaproject (Westman and Joly 2019).…”

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Gwaabaw: Applying Anishinaabe harvesting protocols to energy governance

Awasis¹

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Oil and gas extraction has transformed Anishinaabe society in ways that undermine the consensual, holistic, and egalitarian basis of natural law. To many Indigenous people, framing fossil fuels and other energy sources as "natural resources" does not accurately define energy projects or capture related risks. Some Anishinaabe pipeline opponents have suggested that traditional harvesting protocols-culturally embedded moral precepts that govern the gathering of food and medicinal plants-also be applied to activities that produce energy. This paper explores how this could be done, focusing on tar sands extraction and the Line 3 expansion plan. I begin by discussing Anishinaabe harvesting protocols, identifying four overlapping key concepts: rights, responsibility, relationality, and reciprocity. These principles are then mapped onto Anishinaabe understandings of oil, hydro, wind, and solar energy. The resulting analysis challenges extractivist narratives of energy production, opening possibilities to rethink the relationship between people and energy as well as the values that inform energy decisions.

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Oil Sands Extraction in Alberta, Canada: a Review of Impacts and Processes Concerning Indigenous Peoples

Cited by 33 publications

References 44 publications

Essential components and pathways for developing Indigenous community‐based monitoring: Examples from the Canadian oil sands region

Essential components and pathways for developing Indigenous community‐based monitoring: Examples from the Canadian oil sands region

Agriculture and land use in the North of Russia: Case study of Karelia and Yakutia

Gwaabaw: Applying Anishinaabe harvesting protocols to energy governance

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