B.C. natives fear violence over mine
Suggesting this main article below to give further voice to those who are so often disavowed and oppressed.
This is an old and new story; it matters not which province, state or country, it seems so all too common across this blue dot. Environmental assessments are just another rubber stamp, a façade to foster the impression of stewardship while political socio economic pontificating tells the tale of how good it will be for everyone. The corporations it seems suppress any opposition with simple phone calls. The litany of those who will gain stretches from Wall Street and engineering firms to the yellow machines that will shape the land, and strip-it-all-down; they all stand in line waiting for the light to turn green.
Reminds me of the dam building sector, way back when the first big ones were built. The builders invented the machines and the wherewithal to maintain an insatiable need and greed to build more. This water damming business was looking grand for many global areas, and the agricultural benefits like in Pakistan and India would be a treasure; and this was true as a measure of producing food to feed nations. However, so too were the seeds sown that would produce future strife – water war. The politics of water damming becomes a weapon held to the throats of downstream users; the Nile and Euphrates are but two – there are something like > 4,000 choking planetary rivers – some perhaps good (for humans), useful and fairly environmentally benevolent, but most it seems have many malevolent ripples held within their reservoir.
When new dams are projected anywhere that the old dam builders (like Bechtel) wished to go and protests resulted, the WTO and IMF quickly bared muscle and politicians are reined in; the military might be required too, which is no problem.
Whether a dam, road or mine such as this one in the Chilcotin, it is the same, it is the world of Political Ponerology that shows its claws.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/26/bc-taseko-mine-environmental-hearing.html
The tribe described was involved in a war with basically land developer-miners wanting to shorten their route to their claims back in 1864. There were deaths to those pushing the road and an offered treaty which was in the end a rouse to capture tribal leaders and hang them for their actions.
Speculation in these cases would generally be one sided, without the evidence of the original provocations; what did those who were pushing actually do to incite the tribe? Of course by their fruits they were intruding on ancestral land. Did they ask if that would be ok? This was around that time when smallpox was being used as a bio-weapon against natives to make them heel or become extinct; the PTB probably cared not one way or the other as long as they could take land without being hindered. This was used all across the land including during the Alaskan highway construction.
Here is a link to one version of this old war in the Chilcotin. Alfred Waddington, pictured, looks like your typical Robber Baron, although that is perhaps not fair, too subjective, however there is a high probability of being so, as this was the SOP of the expansionist English gentry and their point men were defiantly subject to pathologies of the mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilcotin_War
Suggesting this main article below to give further voice to those who are so often disavowed and oppressed.
This is an old and new story; it matters not which province, state or country, it seems so all too common across this blue dot. Environmental assessments are just another rubber stamp, a façade to foster the impression of stewardship while political socio economic pontificating tells the tale of how good it will be for everyone. The corporations it seems suppress any opposition with simple phone calls. The litany of those who will gain stretches from Wall Street and engineering firms to the yellow machines that will shape the land, and strip-it-all-down; they all stand in line waiting for the light to turn green.
Reminds me of the dam building sector, way back when the first big ones were built. The builders invented the machines and the wherewithal to maintain an insatiable need and greed to build more. This water damming business was looking grand for many global areas, and the agricultural benefits like in Pakistan and India would be a treasure; and this was true as a measure of producing food to feed nations. However, so too were the seeds sown that would produce future strife – water war. The politics of water damming becomes a weapon held to the throats of downstream users; the Nile and Euphrates are but two – there are something like > 4,000 choking planetary rivers – some perhaps good (for humans), useful and fairly environmentally benevolent, but most it seems have many malevolent ripples held within their reservoir.
When new dams are projected anywhere that the old dam builders (like Bechtel) wished to go and protests resulted, the WTO and IMF quickly bared muscle and politicians are reined in; the military might be required too, which is no problem.
Whether a dam, road or mine such as this one in the Chilcotin, it is the same, it is the world of Political Ponerology that shows its claws.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/26/bc-taseko-mine-environmental-hearing.html
The tribe described was involved in a war with basically land developer-miners wanting to shorten their route to their claims back in 1864. There were deaths to those pushing the road and an offered treaty which was in the end a rouse to capture tribal leaders and hang them for their actions.
Speculation in these cases would generally be one sided, without the evidence of the original provocations; what did those who were pushing actually do to incite the tribe? Of course by their fruits they were intruding on ancestral land. Did they ask if that would be ok? This was around that time when smallpox was being used as a bio-weapon against natives to make them heel or become extinct; the PTB probably cared not one way or the other as long as they could take land without being hindered. This was used all across the land including during the Alaskan highway construction.
Here is a link to one version of this old war in the Chilcotin. Alfred Waddington, pictured, looks like your typical Robber Baron, although that is perhaps not fair, too subjective, however there is a high probability of being so, as this was the SOP of the expansionist English gentry and their point men were defiantly subject to pathologies of the mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilcotin_War
