This webinar is hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
# Webinar description
In Canada’s oil and gas industry, impact assessments (IAs) are used to determine the positive and negative externalities of proposed projects. These assessments tend to prioritize economic gains over the values of Indigenous communities who bear the weight of impacts. We will discuss how Indigenous values are understood and considered alongside standardized economic measures in decision-making. This webinar presents a thematic inductive analysis of six National Energy Board (NEB) reports for project approvals in the Alberta oil and gas industry. Our findings evidence how Indigenous values shared in the IAs are interconnected to health and well-being, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous leadership in IA for informed decision-making.
# Learning objectives
- Identify what measures and components were used to inform recent IA reports prepared by the NEB for major oil and gas projects approved under federal jurisdiction.
- Understand to what extent the application of these measures and components reflect Indigenous values and the interconnections to Indigenous health and wellbeing.
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