There are many arguments that could be made here for and against the project and the sensitivities of the First nations involved and there are several interests that must be considered and balanced. But this is not the way to do it. You can believe that a holy site, like the Wailing Wall or the Kaaba or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is sacred, but razing it to the ground or defiling it by turning it into a latrine, for example, would have nothing to do with religion? Nonsense. It may well be that the site isn't that holy or the project not that defiling or harmful to the bear, but this purported distinction between belief and practice or place is  just a facile, and misconceived, way out of directly making the real choices, the real balance of interests openly and  honestly. With all due respect.