Hello all, Ed Weick wrote: "About thirty years ago, I was a member of a team of environmental and social science specialists assembled to study the impact of a major pipeline that was being proposed for northern Canada.... At the end of the inquiry, we had assembled a substantial chunk of the northern Canadian Gaia, enough to understand the dominant issues and troublespots, though by no means all of it. For those of us who had written the original report, it was an exercise in humility, but a gratifying one."
You should know that Ed speaks with typical Canadian modesty when, in fact, he is referring to his participation (and pre-participation) in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline chaired by Judge Thomas Berger. This was a remarkable event in Canadian, nay, in modern human history. ---> "It�s been 25 years since Thomas Berger first came north to talk to the people here. There were plans to build a pipeline down the Mackenzie Valley... and the government wanted to find out what people thought. Rather than rubberstamp the project, Berger�s commission and report was a watershed event that changed the north forever. "That�s because Berger�s visit galvanized northerners into action. Organizers visited every home in every community, encouraging people to come out to the hearings, to talk or to listen. Political organizations and their leaders sprang up overnight, or blossomed into maturity at the hearings. And the message they gave Berger was clear... this was their land, and their lives, their culture, and their livelihoods would be devastated by the development. "25 years after his ground-breaking report was released, CBC Radio and Television are marking the event with retrospectives -- from Berger himself, and the people who spoke to him. Click on the links button above to see and hear stories on the anniversary of the North�s coming of age." Go to: http://north.cbc.ca/north/archive/berger25/ For an "update" see: http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/mackenzievalley_pipeline.html I couldn't find an on-line version of Berger's Report ("Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland"), but excerpts and some submissions seem to be available. (Ed may know.) In addition to the CBC sites above, search these on yer fav'rit enjine: Northern Frontier Northern Homeland Berger Inquiry Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Ed, you are one of the immortals! best wishes, Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, BC _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
