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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Not a function of hydro specifically you're right. Still, the mistrust is as strong, or in some cases stronger than ever. Do we have the stomach for 30 years of trying to move beyond consultation?
Or do we wind up doing what is being done with oil and gas where the archeological and historical consultant show up at a reserve and explain that there is no stopping the projects and if the community wants to protect things of cultural significance they will have to speak up now because they will plow through it unless they do, and if they try have a show of solidarity they get the brunt of colonial hate like the poor folks at Wetʼsuwetʼen who needed to go through police blockades anytime they want to buy groceries?
I think it would be just as easy to flood bearspaw to build a hydro damn there. But of course that isn't an option. These projects don't get planned where they might impact settler society.
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This has played out for 20 or 30 years with Site C in BC. I think the last Nation finally signed onto the project last year.