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Environmental issues in aboriginal communities New Brunswick
This topic was covered Kim Allen who is Managing Consultant and Aboriginal affairs secretariat and dealt
with the issues that aborigines face in New Brunswick. The things covered were the various Aborigines
trines that exist in Canada such as the Maliseet and Passamquate, Eastern Aborigines, Western Abenaki
etc. Next we looked at the history of Canadas colonization and how this affected the aborigines, the
This was an agreement between Britain and France that occurred on 11th of April 1713 at
Utrecht in the Netherlands as part of the series of treaties ending the War of the Spanish
Succession. The treaty recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of England and
officially ended French support for the claims of the Jacobite party to the British throne.
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great
Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian
War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian
Mountains.
protection of the Aboriginal environment. These include the residential schools available for aborigines,
the constitute acts and the truth and reconciliation commission of Canada. These are put in place to
help protect the rights of aborigines and prevent them from harassment intimidation and being taken
advantage of
I have found this presentation to be quite insightful due to the fact that I previous had no information
on the plights the aborigines had faced in Canada all throughout history to present day. Cases can be
made against the various laws and programs put in place to help the aborigines and how efficient they
really are in the protecting the aboriginal people. The argument can be made that over the years these
people have been exploited even with all the laws put in place and it is really only of recent that huge
compensations( like the 39 million dollars land claim given to the Tobique First nation by Ottawa ). Case
in point, the legal war that has been going on the indigenous people and the shale gas companies in
terms of the duty to consult and accommodate aboriginal people when the development is on their
traditional land. The argument here can be made here that the local First Nations leaders and aborigines
are usually exploited as there is usually the failure of government and industry to consult with them
before development before carrying out projects on their lands. This bias and mistreatment of aborigins
can also be said to true in terms of the manner in which the aborigines receive education. As the Truth
and reconciliation council also found out, there were previously high odds of aboriginal deaths and
sexual assaults in residual schools and these residual schools served more of foster home than a place of
learning for the aborigines, the aborigines were treated as though they were intellectually inferior,
subjected to abuse and prevented from speaking their native languages with in the school vicinity;
amongst other things. Even though these reports dating dated as far as 2011 there are still signs that
they prevail today. So in my opinion, more should be done to help these aborigines because this country
Maritime Provinces at Amec Foster Wheeler and dealt with Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental impact assessment deals with how a particular project to be conducted would affect the
environment and whether these issues that would arise from the project can be reduced or eliminated.
The parts of the environment that we are concerned with it are the inorganic and organic matter; land
water and air; and the ecosystem. This process usually involves finding the best ways to reduce problem
without the process having a negative effect on the environment as failing to do this would make the
For the Environmental impact assessment field studies are done by gathering the necessary information
about the environmental structure pre project implementation and how the project would generally
affect the environment. The field study done includes rare plant surveys, Bird Surveys, water quality
testing electrofishing amongst other things. It is important that the public is given full information about
the assessment, the project being conducted and how the project would affect the environment. This
document for this assessment is also analyzed by the Technical review committee.
The main point of the presentation was the role of the consultant (a position which the presenter holds).
The consultants role is to ensure that the clients are adhering to the laws in place to protect the
environment with no form of bias for the client. They also write the Environmental impact assessment
reports which usual contains diagrams, spokespeople to convey important information to the public and
the role to dealing with situation that arises when the development of a project is to be conducted and
give a full assessment of how said project would have an impact on the environment .The Fight for
protection of the environment has always been an ongoing debate because in one hand, we have the
various environmental laws and environmental warriors while in another hand, we have wide spread
corruption by big companies that try to manipulate their ways through these laws. These laws are put in
place to ensure that our environment is safe for the current and future generations and it is always
important big companies are prevented from manipulating them . Reducing the burden of
important that the consultants given the task of conducting these assessments are of an incorruptible
nature and hold the highest level of integrity and honesty as the fate of the environment can be said be
Based on my research though I would have to say that I have noticed certain flows that the
Environmental impact assessment has. Even though the Environmental impact assessment is always
done before a project is given the go ahead, there has been cases were failure to meet the
Environmental impact assessment standards has not prevented the project from being conducted. This
is due to fact that in some cases the decision to give the go ahead for a project is based on an
opportunity cost point of view as opposed to failure of the assessment. This is due to fact that EIA is
seen more as an administrative process that identifies the potential environmental effects of
undertaking a proposal, and presents these environmental effects alongside the other advantages and
disadvantages of the proposal to the decision-makers but is not responsible for making the final
decision. This in my opinion should altered to give the EIA consultants and team the absolute power to
be able to have the final say on whether a project should be given the go ahead or not because even
though the advantages of a project might outway the disadvantages, public and environmental safety