Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Projects: Success Factors in Compensation and Benefit Sharing Agreements
Article from: OGEL 4 (2011), in Indigenous People and Resources Development
Introduction
This paper explores different types of compensation and benefit sharing agreements between extractive companies and indigenous groups through three different national and project contexts, which include an overview of the Bolivian national context of oil and gas compensation agreements, the Sakhalin oil and gas and indigenous agreement in Russia, and the Argyle mining agreement in Australia. Though these agreements are all very different and have evolved in very different contexts, we nonetheless argue that broader lessons towards building and implementing what we term "successful and ...