Workshop 1:
Contents
Ulla Lehtinen: "Indigenous peoples and oil" events in Finland 1999
Olli Tammilehto: A civilised world or a bloodsucker of the earth?
Background information on oil
Russia's oil production
Florian Stammler: Where does our oil come from?
Yeremei Aipin: Russia's oil industry and the development of rights of indigenous people
Agrafena Sopochina: "We Live on what the earth carries on itself"
Yuri Vella: Kogalym-Lor - the lake where a man died
Bruce Forbes: Industrial development in the Yamal-Nenets Area
Lidia Okotetto: I no longer understand the tundra that has loved me
Grigorii Anagurichi: A clash of civilisations at the ends of the world
Charity Nenebari Ebeh: The Ogoni experience
Magda Lanuza: Oil production in Central America
Ecuador and oil
Arturo Yumbai Iligama: The war against the poor
Colombia, the U'wa and oil
Roberto Afanador Cobaria: Oil is blood of the earth
Workshop 1: The strategies of oil industry and the responses of indigenous peoples' movements
Workshop 2: Networking of indigenous peoples threatened by oil and gas exploration
Workshop 3: Northern Dimension
Communique of the participants in the seminar "Indigenous Peoples and Oil"
Internet links
The strategies of oil industry and the responses of indigenous peoples' movements
The workshop, meeting in the house of sciences in Helsinki, had a lively and meandering discussion in Russian and in Finnish. The participants included Yuri Vella, Eva Toulouse and Jan Gardberg. The chairperson was Olli Tammilehto. Because of the interpretation and other reasons, the reserved time was not enough. However, a couple of workshop participants succeeded in crystallizing the discussion to the following outline:The strategies of oil industry
1. Oil industry defines the language and concepts in which you are allowed to speak about the issues.
2. The companies convey an ecological picture of their activities to the public.
3. They try to get indigenous peoples become dependent on the companies by "giving aid".
4. The companies try to make people unequal ("more to one than to the other" strategy), what will separate people from each other.
5. The companies influence governmental authorities in many ways.
The strategies of the resistance
1. Making proposals for new laws.
2. Working on enlightenment and education so that indigenous peoples could realize what is their situation and what are their chances.
3. Creating national and international movements, joining the human and material resources.
4. Influencing the public opinion.