Green Colonialism
Sabina Singh
Volume 21, Number 2 (2022) 21 (2): 117-122
Keywords extraction, fourth world, first nations Canada, ring of fire, lithium, batteries, neoliberalism, free prior and informed consent
Abstract
The neoliberal state of the world is showing a definite inability to be anti-colonial and anything but state government and corporate centric. In Canada, there are the most extractive mining industries in the world and yet we have no new routes to negotiate ethical or responsible global compacts when it comes to indigenous nations and people. On top of not having a way to reign in domestic corporations internationally we are continuing down a road of colonial governance when it comes to new rare earth minerals that are needed to shift away from coal, oil and gas towards electrified vehicles and the like. Analysts will need to be looking toward the possibility of a lithium cartel that may rival OPEC. In Canada, billion-dollar companies turn the heads of state officials who attempt to control the environmental assessments, terms of reference and monetary value to First Nations. Governments scramble to get any control over the new mining industries created for the “green economy” and yet still trample on the land and rights of First Nations. The example in this paper will be negotiations around the so-called “ring of fire”, 5,000 km of land near James Bay. The Canadian government says it will make billions of dollars, meanwhile, Nishnabe Aski nations, Treaty 9 nations, that struggle with abdications, suicide, housing, water and more, have not had input in the talks at all, and with such a dire living condition one wonders how they will “negotiate” at all with these lush companies and governments. There is no free prior or informed consent (FPIC), and the Canadian government claims they are going ahead with the project in two years.
Sabina Singh
Published January 1, 2022
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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