Exploring Theme: "Specific Industry Environmental Issues"

Earlier today, Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) released a national conservation report entitled: Conservation Forestry – Careful Use of Canada’s Forest Resources. The report identifies the link between Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and the progress being made on biodiversity goals, Indigenous-led management, and net-zero carbon targets. The report provides insights into sustainable forest management...

NationTalk:The Province has been working in government-to-government partnership with First Nations and seeking input from stakeholders to complete a five-year review of the implementation of ecosystem-based management (EBM) in the Great Bear Rainforest. EBM is a land and resource management approach that considers the interconnectedness of people, place and ecology. EBM seeks to find the...

NationTalk: Union of BC Indian Chiefs – Recent announcements that the new cost of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) has ballooned to $21.4 billion, and that the federal government will not invest further public funds into the project should be a major red flag for anyone considering economic participation or ownership of the controversial...

Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Gwitchin Tribal Council – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the “Build Back Better Act”, which restores protections to Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (The Sacred Place Where Life Begins), also known as the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Coastal Plain is critical to the survival of...

Toronto Star – By the end of a 30-day consultation period in mid-March, the government is set to enshrine the 143,800 hectares of additional land for the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland (KNW) in legislation, creating the largest boreal protected region in the world, which includes habitat for the wood bison and woodland caribou, both identified as...

Indigenous Group: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Business: US Government and State of Alaska Issue: Opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling which threatens the Porcupine Caribou herd. The animals are protected under a U.S.-Canada treaty, which commits both nations to preserve it. Comment: April 23, 2018: CBC – The herd is the largest...

Government of Canada – will invest $59.9 million over 3 years to continue implementing federal commitments under the Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site Action Plan. Funding announced today builds on the Government of Canada’s initial investment of $27.5 million through Budget 2018 for work to date on the Action Plan. It will support...

CBC – Energy companies must fulfil their environmental obligations before paying back creditors in the case of insolvency or bankruptcy, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled. The top court’s ruling released Thursday overturns two lower court decisions that said bankruptcy law has paramountcy over provincial environmental responsibilities in the case of Redwater Energy, which became insolvent...

Indigenous Group: Mikisew Cree First Nation and Manitoba Métis Federation Business: Government of Canada Issue: Jan. 14, 2018: CBC – The case seeks a judicial review of changes made under the previous Harper government to the Fisheries Act, the Species At Risk Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in...

Indigenous Group: Mikisew Cree First Nation Business: Federal Government Issue: Mikisew Cree First Nation in December 2014 applied to have Wood Buffalo National Park added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger because their way of life is tied to the Peace-Athabasca Delta and Canada’s failure to protect this important area has put their...

Indigenous Group: Multiple First Nations and Métis communities Business: Redwater Energy Corp Receiver Issue: In May 2016, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta stated that the receivers and trustees who manage company bankruptcies can avoid complying with provincial legislation, ignoring environmental and public safety obligations, in order to maximize profit for secured creditors. Comment:...