3.4 Discussion: What should happen next?
Winifred Athembo; Lee Beavington; and Deirdre Maultsaid
What should Daniel do?
- Should he drop the issue and carry on as per usual?
- Should he contact a local university to take soil samples and perform other monitoring?
- Should he convince his parents that he will be the liaison with Western Energy now?
- Should he join a rancher’s alliance to discuss this issue?
- Should he encourage his parents to obtain a lawyer to end the contract?
- Should he encourage his parents to launch a lawsuit against Western Energy?
- Should he try to organize a class action lawsuit with neighbouring ranches?
- Should he encourage his parents to go to local media?
- Should he take photos of the caved in land and injured cows and post them to social media?
- Should he wait until he is in charge of the ranch to make big changes?
- Other ideas?
What should Aaron and Chida do?
- Should they drop the issue and wait for the representative?
- Should they email back requesting a visit sooner?
- Should they chat informally with neighbour ranchers to get a sense of the community concerns?
- Should they call a meeting of neighbour ranchers to plan a course of action?
- Should they agree with Daniel and contact lawyers?
- Should they let Daniel take responsibility for dealing with the problem?
- Should Chida call the veterinarian for a full checkup of all the cattle?
- Should Aaron call a contractor to fence off the dangerous areas?
- Should they document the changes to their land for future reference?
- Other ideas?
What should Western Energy do?
- What are their obligations?
- Should they inspect the ranch sooner?
- Should they offer empathy and an apology?
- Should they offer compensation for the damaged land and livestock?
- Should they commission an environmental assessment?
- Should they write to GreenFolks Ranch to remind them of the terms of the contract?
- Should they provide as little information as possible to avoid liability and carry on with business as usual?
- Other ideas?
