Pipeline Projects: Oil Industry and Fellow Chiefs

pipeline projects: Fort McKay Chief Jim Boucher said his small community of 800 Cree and Dene people is dependent on the oil industry for its economic well-being, according to The Waterloo Record. In the 1980s, Boucher said his reserve turned to the oil industry when its trapping economy was going in the tank, noting the partnership has led to employment for band members. A First Nations leader from northern Alberta is urging his fellow chiefs to resist buying into the arguments of environmentalists opposed to pipeline projects and the oilsands. We are pro-oilsands, he said. The debate about controversial energy projects, including the Kinder Morgan pipeline, recently approved by the Liberal government, took centre stage Wednesday at an Assembly of First Nations meeting. If it wasnt for the oilsands, my people would be in poverty right now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.