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(Filtered by Stakeholder "British Columbia")
October 3, 2023
Tŝilhqot’in National Government Releases Mining Policy
NationTalk: Williams Lake, B.C.: Today, the Tŝ ilhqot’in National Government (TNG) has released a mining policy that affirms its jurisdiction over mineral resources in its Territory, its responsibilities to protect Tŝilhqot’in nen (lands and resources) for future generations, and outlines how responsible mining may occur in the Tsilhqot’in territory. The draft policy underwent public engagement...
July 5, 2023
KOTUG Canada Provides First State-of-the-Art Dual Fuel Methanol Escort Tugs for Trans Mountain’s Expanded Operations on Canada’s West Coast
NationTalk: In 2021, after a rigorous and competitive process, Trans Mountain, on behalf of shippers for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP), awarded KOTUG Canada Inc. a long-term contract to provide enhanced escort towage services for tankers that load crude oil at Trans Mountain’s Westridge Marine Terminal. Trans Mountain operates Canada’s only oil pipeline servicing...
June 9, 2022
Great Bear Rainforest Review: How to preserve and protect while supporting sustainable forestry
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...
November 18, 2021
Coastal GasLInk Pipeline
Toronto Star – Fifteen people, including Indigenous elders, media and legal observers, had been arrested by the afternoon, according to Jennifer Wickham, a spokesperson for the hereditary chiefs and their supporters. Wickham stressed they had been acting peacefully. Wickham said armed RCMP officers in tactical gear with canine units and heavy machinery moved into the...
April 9, 2021
BC Salmon Fishery
Canada’s National Observer – On Monday, Federal Court Justice Peter George Pamel said Mowi Canada West and Saltstream would suffer substantial harm if they couldn’t transfer juvenile fish into three farm sites in the area. But Homalco Chief Darren Blaney said the companies’ win comes at the expense of wild salmon and all the First...
March 3, 2021
BC Hydro’s Site C Dam
First People’s Law – In February, the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta issued a Declaration of Indigenous Solidarity calling for the immediate suspension of the Site C project until the Crown’s consultation obligations are fulfilled and until the court has determined West Moberly’s treaty infringement claim....
January 26, 2021
BC Hydro’s Site C Dam
Indigenous Group: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Business: BC Hydro and Government of BC Issue: $9 billion Site C dam would flood 107 kilometers of the Peace River and its tributaries including the traditional lands of the Treaty 8 First Nations. Comment: The most expensive public project ever undertaken in the province has generated numerous...
April 2, 2020
BC Hydro’s Site C Dam
The Narwhal – BC Hydro offered West Moberly First Nations $28 million in lump-sum payments and annual payments to address the impacts of the Site C dam, according to new court documents for a treaty rights infringement trial. They turned the offer down: $3.5 million in lump sum payments over three instalments and annual payments...
March 10, 2020
Coastal GasLInk Pipeline
Indigenous Group: 17 First Nations communities Business: LNG Canada & TransCanada Issue: Construction of approximately 670 km pipeline to transport natural gas in BC from the Dawson Creek area to Kitimat. Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are opposed to the project that criminalizes Anuk Nu’at’en (Wet’suwet’en laws) Comment: This $40 billion project has been met with a...
March 5, 2020
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline
APTN National News – The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigenous groups from British Columbia on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. It means the multi-billion-dollar project has cleared another legal hurdle....
February 10, 2020
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline
Indigenous Group: 81 First Nations in Alberta and BC Business: Kinder Morgan Canada (Government of Canada purchased Kinder Morgan on May 29, 2018) Issue: $7.4B pipeline project would triple the amount of oil being transported through Burrard Inlet, from 300K to nearly 900K barrels per day, and increase oil tanker traffic from one a week...
August 12, 2019
BC Salmon Fishery
Indigenous Group: Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, Namgis, Tlowitsis and Mamalilikulla First Nations Business: Marine Harvest Canada Issue: Long struggle with federal and provincial governments to fully recognize and address the threat of salmon fish farms to wild salmon Comment: Wild salmon is an integral part of the ecosystem and a central part of First Nations cultures on...
July 16, 2019
New Propsperity Gold Mine
Indigenous Group: Tsilhqot’in First Nation BC Business: Taseko Mines Ltd. (TML) Issue: Granting drilling permits for extensive pre-construction exploration in dying days of previous Liberal government. Comment: July, 18, 2017: The Nelson Daily – The permits authorize 76 km of new or modified trails, 122 drill holes, 367 test pits dug by an excavator, and...
June 21, 2019
Bill C-48: Oil and Tanker Moratorium Act
Indigenous Group: First Nations in Northwest BC Business: Alberta Oil and Gas companies Issue: Banning oil tanker traffic along the BC coast north of Vancouver Island Comment: Bill C-48: “An Act respecting the regulation of vessels that transport crude oil or persistent oil to or from ports or marine installations located along British Columbia’s north...
June 1, 2019
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline
Trans Mountain Expansion Project – Accommodation Measures As part of the re-initiated Phase III consultations, consultation teams had an expanded mandate to discuss specific accommodation measures to address the concerns of potentially affected Indigenous groups. The government has put forward eight accommodation measures that focus on building capacity and long-term relationships, marine safety, spill prevention,...
July 18, 2017
BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC)
Indigenous Group: Fort Nelson First Nation Business: Rockyview Resources Inc. and BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) Issue: The 39K gas pipeline is slated to cut across a critical habitat of the boreal woodland caribou, a provincially and federally recognized species at risk Comment: July 18, 2017: The Narwhal – The 39km proposed gas pipeline...
November 29, 2016
Northern Gateway
Indigenous Group: 8 First Nations along pipeline route Business: Enbridge Issue: Enbridge’s $7.9-billion Northern Gateway project pipeline route which spans 1,170 kilometres from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat. that would link Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s north coast. The project would dramatically increase tanker traffic along the northwest coast. Approved in 2014 Comment: Jan. 12, 2016:...
August 17, 2016
Northern Gateway
Vancouver Sun -The extraordinary decision by a Haida clan to strip two of its hereditary chiefs of their titles for secretly supporting the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is being closely watched by First Nations across Canada. The rebuke came as the Haida Nation rejected what they say is a growing trend by companies to...
June 30, 2016
Northern Gateway
Global News – The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the government’s approval of a controversial pipeline proposal that would link Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s north coast. The court says Canada fell short in its duty to consult with aboriginal people before giving the green light to the$7.9-billion Northern Gateway project. Eight First Nations,...
February 24, 2016
Northern Gateway
Indigenous Group: 8 First Nations along pipeline route Business: Enbridge Issue: Enbridge’s $7.9-billion Northern Gateway project pipeline route which spans 1,170 kilometres from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat. that would link Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s north coast. The project would dramatically increase tanker traffic along the northwest coast. Approved in 2014 Comment: Jan. 12, 2016:...
February 1, 2016
Great Bear Rainforest
Indigenous Group: 26 First Nations Business: BC Government Issue: Industrial developments, logging, and the combined effects of climate change continue to threaten the cultural and ecological integrity of the Great Bear Rainforest. Comment: First Nations are concerned about the environmental impacts of destructive logging practices and the lack of economic benefits for their communities from...
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