Private and Public Oil Corporations operating inside Beaver Lake Cree Nation's territory
by Zoe Cruver
1. global community expects transport of oil. Local governments feel pressured to optimize oil sands trade
2. Feedback
3. Social and economic benefits for those who work for oil corporations
4. Jobs created by private and public corporations (Economic impact)
5. Lower Athabasca Regional Plan and Land-use Framework
6. Boreal Forest and Land used for oil mines (80% In-situ: 20% Mining) (Ecological impact)
7. Framework allowing for oil corporation lease agreements
8. Provincial Government Decision-Making for Land-use policy
9. Inputs
10. Materials and Energy used for creation and maintenance of mining sites (ecological Impact)
11. Job market is focussed on employing workers for the oil extraction trade. BLCN workers are forced to destroy their habitat and ways of life in order to procure profit for living
12. Less opportunities for fishing, hunting and interacting with natural landscape
13. Bitumen oil utilized nationally and sold internationally. Global trade of oil= economic gain $, business productivity, and political power gain
14. Deforestation of Boreal Forests = destroyed natural habitats of caribou and fish species = carbon dioxide release
15. Depleted air, water, soil quality of the BLCN territory
16. Oil sales affect Global transportation and sales of goods and services, benefitting the global and national Canadian economies
17. Outputs
18. Feedback
