FES Funded ProjectsOutputs
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| Keepers of the Fire, Keepers of the Water: Language, loss, and regeneration through geothermal practices on Indigenous landsAmerican Anthropological Association Presidential Panel: Tipping Toward Extinction: Confronting Climate Change and Indigenous Language LossT05-P04 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-11-23 | | | The Pools of Ngāwha: Power, History and the Recognition of Māori Interests.T05-P04 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-03-23 | | | Power and protocol: Indigenous oral histories and geothermal energy developmentGiang, V., Cangiano, K., Palmer, A. and Lefsrud, L. (2019) Power and protocol: Indigenous oral
histories and geothermal energy development. University of Alberta Future Energy Systems Student &
Post-doctoral Fellow Colloquium. 7 May, Edmonton, AB. (Prize winning presentation delivered by
first author)T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-05-08 | | | Indigenous Rights, the Environmental and Geothermal Energy Development in the Pacific Ring of Fire.T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-12-06 | | | Decolonizing Approaches to Geothermal Energy Development in Alberta through Indigenous Community-Led Research and Engagement. T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-03-30 | | | Indigenous youth engaging in community-led research to decolonize renewable energy development.T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-03-13 | | | Deep Entanglements: Geothermal power development and Indigenous-state relations from Aotearoa New Zealand to AlbertaThe richly productive notion of “entanglement” in anthropology captures the “dialogical dimensions of the encounters and the coexistence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds” (Poirier 2017, 215) and the differentials in power that challenge efforts to stay in relation where treaty obligations are concerned. The history of Alberta and Canada’s relations with Indigenous nations around the development of oil and gas resources in the province provide many deep entanglements with respect to the unfulfilled duty to consult, and ongoing concerns regarding the Alberta Energy Regulator. Can the policies and procedures for new geothermal energy development, with the bright promise of a low carbon footprint, acknowledge these entanglements and create an opportunity for First Nations and Métis involvement in a way that honours treaty obligations and the principle of free, prior, and informed consent?
When Alberta’s Geothermal Energy Resource Development Act received royal assent in late 2020, Canadian jurisprudence recognized no duty to consult in the formation of such legislation, and no consultation of Indigenous Peoples in the province was carried out. The Act will regulate deep drilling and fluid extraction as if the geothermal energy source were a mineral, with all rights to extract automatically granted to pre-existing mineral rights holders. As modelled on pre-existing oil and gas regulations, concerns are raised that the regime will promote the interests of current mineral leaseholders over Indigenous treaty partners, and not fully engage with concerns over surface lands and waters. I examine this legislation and its entanglements in contrast to alternative laws and policies in place Aotearoa New Zealand, where Indigenous practices in those places, and challenges to geothermal development by Maori kaitiaki (guardians) of geothermal waters and others have led to questions as to what should be seen as sustainable practice with respect to geothermal energy development.
T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-26 | | | Entangled, but disengaged: Geothermal energy policy development without First Nations in AlbertaA new extractive industry is being developed in Alberta, and the first bill to regulate the resource throughout the province was passed into law in late 2020. Under current Canadian jurisprudence, no duty to consult in the formation of legislation has been recognized, and no consultation was carried out. Alberta’s Geothermal Energy Resource Act will regulate deep drilling and fluid extraction as if the geothermal energy source were a mineral, with all rights to extract automatically granted to pre-existing mineral rights holders. As modelled on pre-existing oil and gas regulations, the regime will promote the interests of current leaseholders over Indigenous treaty partners. I examine this legislation in contrast to alternative policies in BC and Aotearoa New Zealand, where Indigenous water keepers and fire keepers in those places have opened up new ways of talking about what should be sustainable practice with respect to geothermal energy.T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-12 | | | Anthropological Engagements with Divisions and DisputesT05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-12 | | | 42nd New Zealand Geothermal WorkshopT05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-11-23 | | | On the Protocol of Land AcknowledgementsCanadian Mehfil: Archives, Community and Intimacy within the Public Sphere. A Conference in Honour of Dr. Regula Qureshi.T05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-06-15 | | | Greasing the Tracts: How Oil & Gas Tactics Slide into Geothermal LegislationConference paper for the Organized Session, Experiencing the Precarious EnvironmentT05-P04 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-03-25 | | | Institutional Readiness for Community-University Alliances—Perspectives on RepatriationAbstract
The concept of ‘readiness’ in collaborative research is almost exclusively framed and evaluated with respect to the preparedness of a community. We argue that the concept of readiness should be flipped to consider institutions, and thus, ‘institutional readiness,’ rather than solely assessing a community’s capacity to engage in research projects. [...] Our findings suggest that institutional factors are major barriers to collaborative research and provide perspective on areas where readiness for repatriation could be built.
T05-P04 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-01-01 | |
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