Happy Camper you write:

"Really Babjak1 not trying to be negative either but:"

Actually, Happy, you are trying to be negative. In fact you always seem to be so negative.

The article I posted is quite positive actually. Why would industrial development even be mentioned?

The matawa project is one project mentioned. The other project is :

Another project, Water Knowledge Camps: Building Capacity for Cross-Cultural Water Knowledge, Research, and Environmental Monitoring, is co-led by Associate Professor Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change and a member of Laurier’s Department of Biology, and Leon Andrew, a Shúhtaot'ı̨nę elder with the Tulı́t’a Dene Band and special advisor with Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨nę Gots’ę́ Nákedı – the Sahtú Renewable Resources Board, in the Sahtú Region of the Northwest Territories.

The project involves holding on-the-land camps in three communities of the Sahtú Region – Tulit’a, Délı̨nę and Fort Good Hope – over three years. The project is receiving $330,000 in GWF funding.

 what's going on in the other communities in the NWT that got funding? 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/federal-announcement-mackenzie-valley-highway-project-nwt-1.4724467

https://www.inf.gov.nt.ca/en/mackenzie-valley-highway-project

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/governments-canada-northwest-territories-investing-canyon-creek-all-season-access-road-2186567.htm

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