As we read from the passage <First Nation chiefs to stage Site C showdown>, B.C. First Nation chiefs will be here next week to urge the Harper government to reject BC Hydro’s $8-billion Site C hydroelectric megaproject.
This project is going to establish a dam and a generating station which are projected to be great profitable. However, the man in the picture, the Grand Chief Stewart Philip, showed his objective attitude without hesitation. Why was it?
It is so obvious that a newly founding construction can provide the area countless commercial opportunities and better trade with outside world. Meanwhile, those first nations origins can obtain a chance to learn the world better through communicating and cooperating if they choose to be the partners.
Nevertheless, the real elites among those first nations rejected the “kindness” and benefit from those companies who want to build items in their territory. The reasons is just one sentence: “Our people say that we were put here to look after this part of the earth. “
We take this seriously. Sometimes, the sum of money is not that heavy for a nation to abalienate its territory and change its living habits. Sometimes, the tradition of the nation is much heavier. Sometimes, we have to protect and leave a same land and river and forest to our grandsons and granddaughters.
Do not put too much emphasis on benefits, we have more precious treasures of our own.