Exploring Theme: "Duty to Consult/FPIC"

Illustration by Ata Ojani Canada’s National Observer: Opponents of Canada’s first deepwater oil project are urging the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn its approval, claiming it was unlawfully sanctioned and sets a harmful precedent for future offshore projects. On Monday, lawyers on behalf of Sierra Club Canada and Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Incorporated (MTI) — a...

Mi’kmaw communities say they were not consulted about province’s plan Alexandre Silberman · CBC News · Posted: Jul 05, 2023 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 5 CBC News: New Brunswick’s growing maple syrup industry will now have access to an additional 5,000 hectares of Crown land over the next five years, the first increase since 2015.  The...

Premier quoted as saying, ‘We gotta get on with it’ CBC News: Mi’kmaw and Wolastoqey communities in New Brunswick are slamming comments reportedly made by Premier Blaine Higgs indicating that he’s prepared to go ahead with fracking without their approval. They say his recent comments “again show his complete disregard” for the rights of First Nations....

NationTalk: Canada’s National Observer – New Brunswick can count on a huge backlash if it follows through on its recent comments about fracking natural gas, six First Nations chiefs in the province say. “The issue could get ugly here,” Chief Allan Polchies Jr. of Sitansisk, St.Mary’s First Nation, told Canada’s National Observer. In the past few months,...

APTN – The chiefs of Wolastoqey Nation have added to their lawsuit against the province of New Brunswick, this time adding a number of corporations for conducting business on their territory without consent…the chiefs said that the corporations operate on “20 percent of the more than five million hectares identified in the claim as the...

Wolastoqey Chiefs – Premier Blaine Higgs cancelled all tax revenue sharing agreements with New Brunswick First Nations that had been in place for over 25 tears. These agreements were established to offset the ongoing significant gap “in the per capita funding federal and provincial governments provide for education and social services for First Nations reserves’...