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First Nations Claim Their Land-Canada's Olympic Countdown

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First Nations Claim Their Land - Canada's Olympic Countdown
a report by Jürgen Hansen, Simone Stripp and Paul Webster with additional research by John Cathro
Broadcasted on DEUTSCHE WELLE International German TV on Feb. 8, 2009

When the 2010 Olympic Games put Vancouver firmly on the world sports stage, the spotlight will also be on the region's First Nations, or Aboriginal Peoples. They are gaining increasing influence, particularly in western Canada. Their claims to ownership of key swathes of land have now been recognized by Canada's highest courts and by the provincial government of British Columbia. With the court rulings to back them up, a few hundred native Americans can block projects worth billions of dollars, including the long overdue modernization of high-tension power lines that supply Vancouver with electricity.

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Wayne Campbell

February 16, 2010 01:13 PM

First Nations Claim Their Land-Canada's Olympic Countdown

Working in the oil and gas business for 23 years has opened my eyes to the discriminatory practices at all levels inside the oil and gas business. Having had my own bribery experience, I frown upon companies like Encana/Cenovus and Enbridge and view them as souless corporations intent on stuffing money into the pockets of their shareholders. EPC companies generally have no backbone with what some of these companies will do to the land and thus they will not hire FNs especially at professional levels. Raising awareness against some of these corporations is probably one of the last remaining options for First Nations save going out to fight to save it.