Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is certainly not "agonizing". He's made his choice: Money. His band collects $250 million a year from Syncrude, Suncor, Cenovus, Husky and Esso who run pipeline through "his" land. But, of course, it's not "his" land, it's Crown Land given to the natives for their use. So, actually he should be giving that money to the Crown, i.e., the Canadian taxpayer -- the people who already fund his tribe to the tune of millions every year.
Thumbing through the piece, I tried to find any reference to the above-money, but there was not a word about any of it. "I'm a hunter/gatherer," he said. Well, certainly of money, that's for sure. He's a founder of something called "The Iron Coalition" which wants to buy TMX and is offering first nations and metis an "ownership interest" to deliver profits back to the investing groups. Actually, the investors are the Canadian public, so they'd be buying TMX with our money and giving it back to themselves!
It's all so ludicrous. I have done a few blogs about Adam, see "All yap, no facts", 2017-01-12, and "Things have changed", 2020-02-20. As a former journalist reared in the "get your facts straight" era, I am disgusted by journalists who do no research. Here is Adam with a few more of his Hollywood pals:
When are you going to publish these blogs!
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