The Impact First Nation Issue Has in Business Environment

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Broadly speaking, Canada is not the only country which encountered nation problem. First nation problem has its difficulty to solve like every other alike ones—benefits. There is a conflict between native Indians and Canadians, for example, BC Hydro Project and Copper-gold project.

 

BC Hydro’s $8-billion Site C hydroelectric megaproject is rejected by Indians because it damages their farmland and wildlife habitat. This is such an $8-billion project and can provide clean energy for region’s growing population, as well as the area’s oil and gas and mining industries. However, under conflicting condition, companies like BC Hydro should consider more elements other than people need, resources and productivity, such as emotional value of their product.

 

To gain support from native Indians, the company should consider their benefit and bring more advantages to them that exceeds their lost. The native Indian chief has showed that clean energy is what people need down that region, however, Indians prefers smaller project like wind or solar energy. In this case, the company should adjust their constrains on their product, for example, by spread bigger project into smaller different stages or subsidize more rebuilding animal habitat project. Same outline for alike problems too, such as Cooper-gold project.

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