Extractive Industries

Examines oilsands expansion, the impacts on Aboriginal rights and policy determinants for assessing these impacts. To access this article, scroll down to page 30.

Describes the tour given to an Australian delegation by Cameco, highlighting cultural centres and mining sites. Article located by scrolling to page 17.

Discusses the impact and costs of building infrastructure to support ten separate mining projects.

Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.

Presents reactions to the modernization of the Mining Act proposed by the government of Ontario.

Project reflects on over 250 publicly-known benefit agreements from the northern regions of Canada.

Paper presented at Conference on Canadian-United States Energy Issues After Copenhagen: Oil Sands and Energy Interdependence. Looks at the First Nations relationships to mining development as both critics and supporters.

Discusses the need for labor researchers to engage with Indigenous studies to advance social and environmental justice.

Seventy-four references published between 1968 and 2020. Some publications in French.

Lists both Canadian and international content.

Looks at the history of iron-making in Aboriginal Australia.

Brief business case study looks at factors which led to Skeena Resources' acquisition of Sona Resources Corp., the company which managed the mine.

Case study on a small Indigenous community, in Guatemala, that held a vote on whether to allow a Canadian mining company the right to work on its territory.

Book review of: Bruising the Red Earth edited by Antonio Sagona. Review located by scrolling to page 213.

Looks at governance, economy, infrastructure and an economic development strategy in order to promote sustainable growth in the north.

Comments on the history of the Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation (Cameco)

Looks at the notions of dwelling and building, literatures on place and home, and the Iskut peoples' insistence that their camps are enduring places used by both the living and the spirits of their ancestors.

Book review of: Canada's Changing North edited by William C. Wonders.

Reviews the effects that mining industries can have on the well being of the people in the Northwest Territories.

Discusses the negative effects on people and the environment due to oil sands mining operations.

Provides overview of some of the notable American individual producers cashing in on the stampede during the 1890s.

Study gives an assessment of environmental and socio-economic impacts of the pipeline, overview of infringement on Aboriginal title and rights by the pipeline, and concerns voiced by the Carrier Sekani community.

"The overriding principle to be drawn from the Court's decision is that if parties agree that a certain activity is to be the subject matter of an environmental assessment, particularly a joint inter-jurisdictional environmental assessment, any activities which are not considered by the parties to be associated with the undertaking which is the subject matter of the environmental assessment should be specifically determined at the outset".

Program provides essential skill training for underground mining, surface mining, and minerals processing operator.

Looks at attitudes and factors involved in the resistance.

Guide to facilitate understanding of mining related processes in order to control negative effects on culture, land and environment.

Describes how local activists in the remote Northern Territory, Australian community were able to reduce air pollution by planting trees supplied by the Rio Tinto mining company.

Discusses the need for Arctic communities to prepare for changes caused by loss of sea ice, increases in coastal erosion, migration of animals important to livelihoods and extreme climate events.

Discusses the resource co-management regime of the James Bay Crees in northern Québec, and looks at co-management institutions within the broader context of nation-to-nation treaty negotiations. Excerpt from Canada: The State of the Federation 2003. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 133.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1978.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2011.

Based on the Labour Mobility And Community Participation in the Extractive industries (LACE) research project, this article outlines the key elements of CBPR (community based participatory research): establishing partnerships, knowledge sharing and co-production, and data and research-product ownership.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Guelph, 2012

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2016.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montreal, 2008.

Examination of consultation process shows the importance of including all stakeholders to ensure a positive outcome.

Identifies the goals and objectives of managing the mineral resources in Nunavut including: capacity development, environmental stewardship and sustainability, community participation, infrastructure development, business development, and development of an effective approval process.

Looks at the debate over the environmental and social costs of the oil sands.

Examines the use of digital media in Pond Inlet and Baker Lake to acquaint residents of issues regarding resource development proposals.

Examines the benefits and implications from agreements between mining companies and Aboriginal communities.

Looks at the social and economic development responsibilities of Cameco and the mutual benefit of the Aboriginal and corporate relationship to Cameco and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Discusses the British Columbia Court of Appeal's decision in Fort Nelson First Nation v. British Columbia (Environmental Assessment Office).

Looks at the common interest, between Native and non-Native groups, for protection of the rural environment from large-scale development.