Impactos de la extracción de petróleo sobre el medioambiente y las poblaciones autóctonas del noroeste de Canadá.

Abstract

Oil began to be exploited in the Northwest Territories of Canada after 1920. Activity increased in the early 1940s to supply the United States Army and safeguard Alaska's reserves from Japanese danger. The presence of 33,000 soldiers, displaced from the United States and more than 8,000 officials and secretaries, created problems during the first phase of the extraction, known as the Canol Project, which concluded before the end of World War II and was observed it had been more propaganda than reality. The second phase intensifies after 1960 and is a totally Canadian project. Specific impacts are analyzed, especially the laying of pipelines to transport crude from the Arctic and Norman Wells to Edmonton and Calgary. In this phase, the opinion of the indigenous populations that requested the services and the intervention of Judge Thomas Berger was heard.