In the last few years there have been an increasing number of major development projects which have raised issues of native rights. The list includes the Bennett Dam, the Bighorn Dam, the James Bay project, the flooding of Southern Indian Lake, exploration and resource development in the Arctic and the Mackenzie valley pipeline. All these projects…

The paper explores how continuously expanding world demand for food, feed, and fuel is generating pressure to restructure agricultural land use. In addition, problems related to transfer of agricultural crop land to energy crops are discussed. The technology of energy crops has developed to the point where large-scale commercial production of…