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Aboriginals Flex Muscle in Canada, Blocking Oil & Gas Projects
2014-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Back in spring 2012, while walking in the deep woods of northern Ontario, Sonny Gagnon stumbled across a collection of surveying equipment among the towering spruce trees. Gagnon is chief of the Aroland aboriginal tribe, a band of 450 people living in a village of ramshackle houses by swampy muskeg. He tracks everything that goes on in his community. And the surveying tools weren't supposed to be there. "I was ticked off,' he says, after learning that the equipment belonged to a subcontractor...
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