Speak Your Piece
The Rape of our Lands
Second open letter by Earth Scientist Dr. Elisabeth Kosters. Her first letter was titled Undo the Theft.
Dr. Elisabeth Kosters
The Nova Scotia Advocate
May 14, 2021
Speak Your Piece
Undo the theft. Give us back Owls Head
By Earth Scientist Dr. Elisabeth Kosters
Adjunct professor at the Earth Sciences Department of Dalhousie University
Canada has only just begun to reconcile with the First Nations who lived in these lands long before us. We robbed them of their livelihood and resources for our own exclusive benefits. We clear cut forests, poisoned the water and locked First Nations people away in residential schools and on reserves. First Nations people first and foremost teach us to respect the earth so it can benefit the generations after us.
CBC journalist Michael Gorman [revealed in December of 2019] that Owls Head was taken off the list of to-be-protected Provincial sites so it could be sold for a pittance to a foreign billionaire. No public consultation, no media release, nothing: a deliberate attempt at total secrecy, a betrayal of democracy.
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