Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities
Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities
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DOI：
10.1057/s41271-019-00186-1
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Spiegel, Jerry M.
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作者：
Jonasson, Michael E.;Spiegel, Samuel J.;Spiegel, Jerry M.
能源项目可能会对土著人民产生深远影响。我们认为，加拿大提出的跨山石油管道扩建的健康和粮食主权的茨莱尔-沃图特国家（TWN）通过污染和阻碍获得未受污染的传统食品的影响。联邦监测和TWN文件显示，在TWN的传统领土附近的原油管道终端贝类生物毒素水平升高。虽然第三世界网络的恢复工作已经重新开放了一些贝类捕捞地点，但管道扩建将通过增加生物积累的化学毒素以及增加危险的生物毒素直接增加健康风险。预计通过管道扩建增加化石燃料使用造成的气候变化也有可能通过更高的温度和营养负荷增加藻类水华。由于环境影响评估过程未能有效地考虑到这些地方健康问题以及气候变化的更大影响，需要进行新的评估，以解决公平、可持续性和土著粮食主权等相关问题。
Energy projects may profoundly impact Indigenous peoples. We consider effects of Canada's proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion on the health and food sovereignty of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) through contamination and impeded access to uncontaminated traditional foods. Federal monitoring and TWN documentation show elevated shellfish biotoxin levels in TWN's traditional territory near the terminus where crude oil is piped. Although TWN restoration work has re-opened some shellfish-harvesting sites, pipeline expansion stands to increase health risk directly through rising bioaccumulating chemical toxins as well as through increased hazardous biotoxins. Climate change from increased fossil fuel use, expected via pipeline expansion, also threatens to increase algae blooms through higher temperature and nutrient loading. As the environmental impact assessment process failed to effectively consider these local health concerns in addition to larger impacts of climate change, new assessment is needed attending to linked issues of equity, sustainability and Indigenous food sovereignty.