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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

topic covered by the presenter involved

The British invasion

The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht

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

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.

Colonization of New Brunswick

She also talked about the plight of Aborigines in Canada today and laws and programs available for the

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

was originally theirs to begin with

Environmental Impact Assessment
This presentation was given Mrs. Janet Blackadar who is the Environmental Sciences Manager of

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

process of Environmental impact assessment redundant.

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

expert witness in hearings when the need arises

For starters I would have to say that this is my first time of hearing of such an organization tasked with

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

environmental impacts is necessary if development is to become sustainable, so It is therefore

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

in their hands one way or another.

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

should always be the number one priority