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Energy, Resource Development, and Human Values

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
January 1983

Abstract

We have come to regard the world as conceived by science and built by technology; but the people of the Mackenzie Valley and the Western Arctic have a long-established renewable resource sector based on hunting, trapping and fishing, and some limited logging and sawmilling. After extensive hearings, the Mackenzie Pipeline Inquiry recommended the postponement of pipeline construction for ten years to enable the settlement of native land claims, the strengthening of native society and of the traditional hunting and trapping economy, the development of the fishing industry, of recreation and of conservation so that the pace of development should not overwhelm the existing economic base with disastrous long-range social impacts. This approach to the rational application of industry and technology provides one example of the issues to be faced in re-assessing the drive towards unrestrained expansion and consumption and forging a new social and economic philosophy.

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Nous en sommes venus à considérer le monde comme s'il avait été conçu par la science et construit par la technologie, mais les habitants de la vallée du Mackenzie et de l'ouest de l'Arctique disposent des richesses naturelles renouvelables établies que leur procurent la chasse, le trappage et la pèche ainsi que la coupe et le sciage de bois. Après de longues audiences, la Commission d'enquête sur le pipeline de la vallée du Mackenzie a recommandé qu'on regarde de dix ans la construction du pipeline afin de permettre le règlement des revendications foncières des autochtones, la revitalisation de la société autochtone et de l'économie traditionnelle fondée sur la chasse et le trappage, la mise en valeur de l'industrie de la pêche récréative et de la conservation de façon à ce que le rythme de développement n'entraîne pas d'effets sociaux désastreux à long terme qui accableraient la base économique existante. Cette façon de rationaliser l'implantation de l'industrie et de la technologie n'est qu'un exemple des problèmes auxquels on doit faire face lors de la réévaluation de la tendance de notre société à l'expansion et la consommation effrénées et lors de l'élaboration d'une nouvelle philosophie économique et sociale.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 2Number S1January 1983
Pages: 21 - 31

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Version of record online: 28 April 2009

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Thomas R. Berger
Supreme Court of British Columbia, Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry 1974-1978
Commissioner, Advisory Commission on Indian and Inuit Health Consultation, 1979-1980

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