Reply To: CCEM 104 Question 3

[Carly Johansson]

I appreciate what you’ve said in your last paragraph here. It’s very hard to be collaborative at the implementation stage. However, especially when the project affects or must include First Nations, it is very hard to empower (much less provide leadership options) once project objectives have been determined. Early and strategic work might alleviate this problem, enabling solutions to be determined from the bottom-up and providing greater latitude for community-based solutions during the implementation stage, but there’s a lot of resistance to this given the very technical and economic nature of project implementation.