Cumulative environmental impacts and aboriginal rights

Timescapes in conflict: cumulative impacts on a solar calendar

“…The findings also support Cebulla's analysis (2007), which demonstrates that social risks are not equally absorbed by people from different social classes. Tollefson and Wipond (1998) point out that aboriginal people can have different spatial and temporal SIA issues than the broader society around them. Here Southern Paiute people are shown to have absorbed more and different risks from threats to a unique pilgrimage trail and social calendar so that the people of the nation state around them can reduce the collective costs of energy by taking transmission shortcuts through isolated areas.…”

“…The key, as in the past, will be the consideration of long-term temporal and spatial impacts -one cumulative assessment process is specifically recommended to address aboriginal people's issues by Tollefson and Wipond (1998). Subsequent EIA proposals, such as have occurred and may still occur in the IPP corridor (WWEC PEIS, 2007), further threaten to increase access and damage resources; however on a positive note, there are moments in time when the activities of the past can be reconsidered and mitigated by future proposals.…”

Improving First Nations' participation in environmental assessment processes: recommendations from the field

“…Studies exist which document, if somewhat sparsely, the concerns of First Nations with regard to engagement within EA (Armitage, 2005;Baker and McLelland, 2003;CARC, 1996;Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, 2007;Couch, 2002;Confederacy of Nations, 1999;Fidler, 2010;First Nations Energy and Mining Council, 2009;Haddock, 2010;Harvard Law School, 2010;Galbraith et al, 2007;Gibson, 2002;O'Faircheallaigh, 2007;Plate et al, 2009;Tollefson and Wipond 1998;Wismer, 1996). General deficiencies with First Nations' engagement within EA have been documented since the 1990s, when the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) (1996: 7) critiqued the EA for a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories as 'flawed in fundamental ways.'…”

“You spoil everything!” Indigenous peoples and the consequences of industrial development in British Columbia

“…Tollefson and Wipond (1998) cited the need for the study of cumulative environmental impacts to fully understand the impact of development on Aboriginal rights as did Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (2007), the First Nations Energy and Mining Council (2009), Harvard Law School 2010and Plate et al (2009. These findings are supported by Korber (2001), based upon a workshop with Treaty 8 Tribal Association.…”

“…While the impacts of development on First Nations have been documented in a limited fashion in other literature (Couch 2002;Galbraith 2005;Getty and Edwin 1975;Harvard Law School 2010;Korber 2001;O'Faircheallaigh 2007;Tollefson and Wipond 1998;Turner et al 2008;and Wismer 1996), the limited nature of the research, coupled with the fact that little has been done in Canada to address First Nation concerns regarding industrial development, from their perspective, suggests that additional case studies, particularly case studies that are developed by the First Nations' themselves, are crucial in expanding our understanding of the issue. Further, exceedingly little attention has been paid to the associated social and personal costs for First Nations required to participate in the assessment processes that are supposed to measure the costs of industrial development; this is a critical, and highly problematic, oversight that this research can only begin to address.…”