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This 4-page paper applies a critical paradigm to the Mackenzie Pipeline Inquiry. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the understanding that a particular action (or actions) by human beings end up shaping and transforming society. With this in mind, lets apply a critical paradigm to the Mackenzie Valley
Pipeline Inquiry. The Mackenzie Pipeline project consists of a group of four Canadian oil and gas companies (Esso Imperial, ConocoPhillips North Ltd.,
Shell Canada Ltd. and ExxonMobil Canada Properties) and the Aboriginal Pipeline Group to develop natural gas fields in the Mackenzie Delta, located in Canadas Northwest Territories (Mackenzie Gas Project, 2009).
The goal of the program is to deliver natural gas to markets through a pipeline system that is built along the Mackenzie Valley (Mackenzie Gas Project, 2009). The plan is
to have this gas moving through the pipeline by 2010 (Mackenzie Gas Project, 2009). The CBC, however, notes that production has been pushed back to 2014 (CBC, 2007).
The project was first introduced in the 1970s, and was billed at the time as "the biggest project in the history of free enterprise"
(Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, 2007). However, concerns arose about the projects impact on the land and people living in the Northwest Territories (which were primarily aboriginal); so the case ended up
in the docket of Canadian judge Thomas Berger of British Columbia (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, 2007). This became known formally as the Berger Inquiry, or the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, and
it ended up being an embarrassment to the Liberal government that appointed him to investigate the project (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, 2007).
Berger didnt just look at paperwork, however, he visited the Northwest Territories the summer before the inquiry formally opened, meeting informally with the aboriginals who lived in the Northwest Territories
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