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The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
In the 1970's the mackenzie valley gas pipeline from the Beaufort Sea to markets in southern Canada and the United States was billed. It was the biggest project in the history of free enterprise.
It was up to a Canadian judge, Thomas Berger of British Columbia, to examine the impact that the pipeline would have on the people who lived in its path. Berger took to the job very thoroughly.
On May 9, 1977, Berger's report was released in Ottawa. Berger titled his report Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland. Berger wanted the world to know that though the Mackenzie Valley may be the route for the biggest project in the history of free enterprise, people also live there.
Berger warned that any gas pipeline would be followed by an oil pipeline and that the infrastructure would blow up. Roads, airports, maintenance bases, new towns would all come along with the pipeline. This would lead to an impact on the people, animals and land equivalent to building a railway across Canada.
Berger recommended that any pipeline development along the Mackenzie River Valley be delayed 10 years, and that no pipeline ever be built across the northern Yukon. The pipeline was delayed for longer than 10 years.
There is still much debate between the government and native people about pipeline development.
As it stands today, three of the Dene nations have now settled land claims in the area and are entitled to a one-third interest in any project. The nations include members of the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in and the Sahtuwill and are collectively known as the Aboriginal Pipeline Group.
In March 2007, Imperial Oil said the cost to develop the pipeline had more than doubled to $16.2 billion. It also pushed back the scheduled production start date by three years to 2014.
the pipeline is still years from development. Imperial Oil has until Dec. 31, 2013, to make a final decision on whether to proceed with the pipeline at all, although it has asked the NEB for three more years to decide.
If a decision is made in 2013 the project would not start till 2018 and the project's estimated price tag would be $16.2 billion dollars.
37 years of negotiation
Berger's Report
Delayed
Dene chief: 'My nation will stop the pipeline'
An angry Dene chief tells the inquiry he will lay down his life to stop the pipeline.
Berger and his wife met with people from across the nation.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Digital%2BArchives/Politics/Rights%2Band%2BFreedoms/ID/1699386702/