Title: Extractive Industries, Indigenous Development and the Environment Part One

Featured Speakers/Commentators: 	 Julie Pelletier, Derek Nepinak, Wab Kinew, Jacqueline Romanow, Sadie Lavoie, Darren Courchene

 ON November 12, 2013... a panel discussion was held on the topic of Extractive Industries, Indigenous Development and the Environment. The event was part of the Grassroutes Sustainability Festival.
THere has been much made of the overlapping concerns of the environmental movement and the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples attempting to protect their land in the face of exploitive resource extraction industries. As a Houston-based energy company closes in on the Elsipogtog First Nation in News Brunswick this timely panel discussion attempted to probe some of the concerns around the relationship between environmental and indigenous sovereignty concerns.
Panelists include Derek Nepinak, Wab Kinew, Dr. Richard Atleo, Darren Courchene, Dr. Jacqueline Romanow, Agnes Palowska, and Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie. The moderator was Julie Pelletier.

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Nationhood and land ownership are fundamentally intertwined, and a reconciliation process that doesn’t acknowledge this is doomed to fail, says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Simpson is a member of the Nishnaabeg First Nation. She has spent years fighting for indigenous peoples land rights. She spoke at Simon Fraser University Woodwards on November 13.

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