Understanding the Social Fabric of Indigenous Communities During Pipeline Public Hearings

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Bechtal, Robert

• On May 27, 2010, a Joint Review Panel was formed to begin an assessment of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project which would involve the construction of pipelines from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia and would pass through a variety of First Nations and Metis lands and numerous ecological niches. This research uses a critical realist approach to analyze transcripts of the oral statements provided by community members who spoke at the public hearings to see how their perspectives were presented as knowledge claims.

• Date created

  2019-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Northern Gateway Pipeline project; First Nations and Metis lands; ecological impacts;
  • indigenous ways of knowing; policy
  • northern Alberrta; northern British Columbia, Canada

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-nnp5-j436

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International