Our home and golden land

The effect is companies, governments and First Nations are left to look out for their own interests with little incentive — much less requirement — to consider how their needs fit into a broader range of uses for the land. “There is no reason why a proponent like Cliffs would have to look downstream of their project,” Chetkiewicz said: “there’s no process in the current land use planning to allow communities like Attawapiskat to have some kind of say in what’s happening in the Ring of Fire even though they live downstream and will be impacted” by potential waterborne pollutants like mercury.
http://www.republicofmining.com/2014/07/23/much-longer-version-of-this-magazine-article-on-ring-of-fire-our-home-and-golden-land-by-andrew-reeves-this-magazine-mayjune-2014/