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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

This kind of talk really bothers me.
What you're doing is implying that it's only indigenous communities that come calling with their hands out when these types of projects roll through town, when that is definitely not the case.

When indigenous communities make demands, or ask for concessions, it's extortion? What about every city, town, county, municipality along the way does the same thin? No one has the same vitriol for them.

Property taxes for things like pipeline right of ways, or production facilities are through the roof compared to other industries, just because, but I assume you aren't worried about being labeled as racist because you don't like what Wheatland county is asking for.

I'm not trying to side track this, or call you racist, but the attitude that it is only indigenous communities that hold oil companies over the fire, or make oversized demands, is pretty narrow minded.
The truth is everyone looks out for their own interests, and every community does the same, but it only seems to upset people when it's a Chief doing it instead of a Mayor.

Exactly. See Burnaby, BC which has long been a stick in the mud for TMX and fought the project despite approvals by the NEB/CER. Or how about Christy Clarke's "5 conditions" for pipelines through BC despite the fact that interprovincial pipelines are Federally regulated?