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This article at Climate Connections by Dawn Paley documents yet another deal between mainstream environmental groups and industry that shut significant numbers of Canada'a First Nations out of negotiations impacting their homelands.
Two great quotes from the article:
“The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement is essentially another huge jump away from democracy, towards corporate control of the lands of Canada, as well as the corporatization of what is left of a once defiant environmental movement,” said Macdonald Stainsby, co-ordinator of OilSandsTruth.org.
Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Environmental Network's tar sands campaigner): “I hardly think that this in any way represents an end to the conflict between the true proponants of the war over the boreal forest, which of course are corporations and First Nations,” he said. “What this means is that First Nations no longer have the support of these mainstream environmental groups that have fallen into the strategy of conquer and divide deployed by industry.”
Here's a video interview with Thomas-Muller:
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