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     cross the Canadian North . 
     
    

    
     7' relative Peoples groups have begun 
     
     to articulate a common program 
     
     for lusuce- $14) . , 
     
     Their cal is greater control 
     
     over eir own economic development. 
     
    

    
     The key is a Just settlement . 
     
     of their land claims. 
     
     ecen years, I 
     
     gave ups have been taking 
     
     the langribsue into the courtrooms 
     
     to establish their traditional rights 
     
     to these lands. « 
     
    
   
   
    
     .The living God 
     
     ls on us 
     
    

    
     fg'respond to these demands 
     
     for justice. ,7 . 
     
     Chritian love of neighbour 
     
     and justice . 
     
    

    
     cannot be separated in the 
     
     development of people. 
     
    

    
     “For love im lies 
     
    

    
     an absolute cmand for justice, 
     
     namely a recognition of the dignitfi 
     
     and rights on one’s neighbour. ' (l ) 
     
    
   
   
    
     EMANDS Foe STEWARDSHIP 
     
    
   
   
    
     9. A second pastoral concern 
     
     is the demandTor 
     
     responsible stewardship 
     
     of ener y resources 
     
     in the evelopment of 
     
     the Canadian North. 
     
     Throughout this country, 
     
     publicinterest groups 
     
     are raismgserious questions about 
     
     our highly industrialized society 
     
     and the current exploitation 
     
     of northern energy resources. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (i) The scramble for northern energy 
     
     continues without 
     
     adequate measures to regulate 
     
     the patterns of relentless 
     
     consumption in this country. 
     
     In the last 25 years alone, 
     
     Canada’s consumption I 
     
     of Oil, gas. and eleittricity, _ , , ,“, .. . . . 
     
     has multiplied ;three§tirfiesoyer.fl63uh ‘;t' 3; ' 
     
     This extravagant consumption ' 
     
     of energy , . . 
     
     generates increasing demands for 
     
     e rapid development 
     
     of northern resources. 
     
     (11) Northern development 
     
     is also continuing without 
     
     full public discussion of future energy needs. 
     
     Governments and industries 
     
     firedict that Canada's energy needs will 
     
     ave to multiply four more times 
     
     by the end of this centur ' 
     
     to maintain “a high quality of life". (17) 
     
     But what is this “quality of life" 
     
     and who determines 
     
     what these future energy needs 
     
     should be? 
     
    
   
   
    
     (In) The reasons'for rapidly developing, , 
     
     northern energy resources 
     
     on such a massive scale 
     
     lat thisltime 1 ' t - 
     
     ave a so been serious y uestion’éd. 18 
     
     While the sale of these regources ( ) ‘ 
     
     Will reap large profits ‘ 
     
     for the energy industry now, 
     
     it may also cause the rapid depletion 
     
     of non-renewable. supplies 
     
     of Oil and gas ’ , 
     
     required for the fiiture. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (W) .In several casesythis en 
     
     18 ing rapidly deve 
     
     the mdus‘tria 
     
     0 theUnited 
     
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     firmachines wehtiv‘ghl1,1113:'seiinumber.~  
     
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     that given the amo  fl 
     
     . unt of muscular ower 
     
     requll'ed to do the work p 
     
    
   
   
    
     of ass machines 
     
     each North American 
     
    
   
   
    
     as the e uivalent of 400 “ener 
     
     working or him. (21m. -' gy 
     
    
   
   
    
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     NORTHERN ALTERNATIVES 
     
     25. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The maximization of consum tion, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Cadre, Oct. 7, 1975, page 7 
     
    
   
   
    
     28.‘We contend, therefore, 
     
     that there are better wa . s 
     
     of developing the Cana' ian North. 
     
     What is required today . . I 
     
     is a public search for alternative policies 
     
     for northern development. 
     
     This search is already under way 
     
     through the actiVities . . 
     
     of Native Peoples and public'interest 
     
     groups across the country. (28) 
     
    
   
   
    
     29. We find ourselves 
     
     in solidarity with many 
     
     of these initiatives. _ . 
     
     Based on the ethical prinCiples 
     
     of social justice _ 
     
     and responsible stewardship, 
     
     we believe . . 
     
     that the following conditions 
     
     must be met before 
     
     any final decisions are made to proceed 
     
     with specific projects for northern 
     
     development: - 
     
    
   
   
    
     We North Americans _ ~ _ 
     
     have created a highly industrialized soc1ety 
     
     that places exhor itant demands 
     
    

    
     on limited supplies of energy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     pro it, 
     
     power ' 
     
     has become the operating principle 
     
     of this society. . 
     
     These are the driving forces 
     
     behind the present -. 
     
     continental struggle to gain 
     
     control of northern energy'resources. (22) 
     
     These are the idols \ 
     
     which turn many 
     
     from service of man and world 
     
     and, thus, from the living God. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As a culture, 
     
    

    
     we have not faced up to the fact 
     
     that the world God created 
     
    

    
     has its limits. ‘ 
     
    

    
     Many voices now warn 
     
    

    
     that mankind has reached 
     
    

    
     a “turning point" in history: 
     
     crucial decisions 
     
    

    
     must be made now 
     
    

    
     to stop plundering the Earth's 
     
     non-renewable resources 
     
    

    
     before it is too late. (23) 
     
    

    
     Yet, this industrialized society 
     
     treats the resources of the Earth 
     
     as if theywere limitless. 
     
    
   
   
    
     a) sufficient public discussion and‘debate about 
     
     groposed industrial projects, 
     
     ased on independent studies of 
     
     ‘ener needs and social costs of the proposed 
     
     deve opments; 
     
    
   
   
    
     b) achievement of a just land settlement 
     
     with the Native Peoples, includin 
     
     hunting, fishing, and trapping rig ts and 
     
     fair royalties in return for the extraction of 
     
    
   
   
    
     I“ "509!“ years, valuable resources from their land claims; 
     
    
   
   
    
     ublic interest groups 
     
     ave been calling for 
     
     responsible stewardship 
     
     of northern energ resources. 
     
     They are calling or 
     
     more effective measures 
     
     to reduce levels of consum tionand waste 
     
     and preserve non-renewab e resources. 
     
     These groups contend 
     
     that future resource development, 
     
     which is largely controlled today 
     
     by ‘multi-national corporations 
     
     must be made more accountable 
     
     to the Canadian public. 
     
    
   
   
    
     c) effective particifation by the Native People 
     
     in shaping the ind of regional development, 
     
     beginning with effective control over 
     
     their own future economic development; 
     
    
   
   
    
     d) adequate measures to protect the terrain, 
     
     vegetation, wildlife and waters of northern areas, 
     
     based on complete and independent studies of the 
     
     regional environment to be affected by proposed 
     
     developments; 
     
    
   
   
    
     e) adequate controls to regulate the 
     
     extraction 0 energ resources from the North, 
     
    
   
   
    
     . . to prevent e rapi depletion of 
     
     The hvmg GO'd - oil, gas, and other resources which 
     
     calls us to a hie 0f ' are non-renewable. 
     
     seizing, ‘ 30. It remains to be seen I n 
     
     s aringy whether Canada’s “last frontier 
     
    
   
   
    
     will be develo ed 
     
     according to 
     
     of justice and stewards 1p. 
     
     The next two years wi 1 be 
     
     a crucial testingperiod. 
     
     In some cases, _ _ 
     
     final and irreversible decision 
     
     have already been made. 
     
     In other instances, 
     
     there ma still be a chance 
     
     to alter e course of develo merit. 
     
     The Mackenzie Valley pipe ine proposals 
     
     resentl bein reView . 
     
     y the rger ommission 
     
     and the National Energy Board 
     
     could provide the real test. 
     
    
   
   
    
     31. As Christians, 
     
     as citizens. ;  I y 1 
     
     we have a responsibility 
     
    
   
   
    
     the limited resources 
     
     of this planet. (24) 
     
     This is no lon er w 
     
    
   
   
    
     e princi les 
     
     simply a more imperative. 
     
     It has also become a 
     
     practical necessity 
     
    

    
     or the surVIval 
     
    
   
   
    
     of our common humanity. (25) 
     
    
   
   
    
     We readil acknowledge 
     
    

    
     that the atholic Church must also take 
     
     a critical look, at itself. 
     
    

    
     We now see that, 
     
    

    
     coming from another culture, 
     
    

    
     the Church may have contributed to 
     
     disruptive changes’rm Native culture . > I 
     
    
   
   
    
     while hel in to brin Christianit to th H . . - I 3 
     
    

    
     through the greative Efforts of misiionariees ‘0 mm“ thaUhe future development 
     
    

    
     xhgh have shared the hard lives of the people. ggfilfimogdmn North 
     
    

    
     the Clarifcmhehggkrtici ated with others social justice and responsible stewardship. 
     
     in” the wealth and com ort AB responfilble ell-We!" 
     
    
   
   
    
     of an industrial society are we prepared to. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     which places enormous demands a) uudy one or more 
     
     3? «in? “flasher eo le. of the mammal pm. 
     
     pen ' p .p in the northern parts of our provinces 
     
     I I or the Territories? V 
     
     28.Welwkwmepm  I  ,  b)activelysup rt 
     
     III at “'0 Darla!!! » '  . Nsfiyel’aogg’ organizations and g 
     
     m‘}? .  » .;:‘ puicin groups ., .x.  _. 
     
     \ 1"“ . m «whim i: , ~ ' current stri  ‘ . ’ .' . ' r 
     
     a  North __.,V  , :1 ‘. ._  tovchanlgve megfiagggonam dsvdopmnt? . 
     
     theai  ‘ c l h. r ’ 
     
     Eaton dioceses )  land cisl, _ i . 
     
     .  and locglncudhsuibsrs Mm; . _. -. ‘. 
     
     .z m5!“ of  ‘ f3":  deve .mt'."  w  ’ 
     
     lies unis iota- , ' a raise ethical titans “ 
     
     ,_ .vrho " , $001M In Cllfldl- ) about involved in 
     
     27 1'. . I ’ northerlili amt. _ 
     
     .  ‘ .M, h ., , m y we”. on. “my _ . 
     
     g .  ~,  ‘ in which Church institutions may have shares. 
     
     ‘ i , mice In my, 33% e) seek a ’ust settlement 
     
     As £3313 0‘ Bilbo?! rdelg I 8 specific church landhgldings 
     
     l  9fij at are subiect to native claims. 
     
     my in e f) des‘ edu ti 
     
     transfiormam of the world to egminecgegdiilal “gig: les 
     
     a 3' Ppetgtud and change the patterns 0 wasteful energy consumptiOi 
     
     of them!) hing Dim“: Gomez in gurlhomest, churches, schools. 
     
     armomérwo'm. . an paceso work. 9 
     
     of“? Chm?" ‘ ""53‘0" g) collaborate with the other 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the redefinition 0f the human. Canadian churches, in every way possible, 
     
    
   
   
    
     race - ' - 
     
     and m liberation from we _ , > in a common Christian effort 
     
     oppm‘w‘ .im‘iom” (27) '3’ ,   L to achieve the above obiectives?