Exploring Theme: "Specific Industry Environmental Impacts"

A file photo of Norman Wells shows Imperial Oil’s facility, left. Sahtu Wildlife/Flickr First People’s Law Report: Cabin Radio – Imperial Oil said some Indigenous governments’ interpretations of federal legislation would render the law “meaningless” as the company fights to shut down an environmental assessment of its Norman Wells facility. Multiple Indigenous governments have backed the...

Indigenous-led impact assessment initiated and community capacity-building funding to flow for disputed Springpole gold project First People’s Law Report: Northern Ontario Business – Northwestern Ontario mine developer First Mining Gold has entered into a “process agreement” with Cat Lake First Nation and Lac Seul First Nation in support of a community-based Anishinaabe-led Impact Assessment (ALIA)...

New rules around consultation and authorization ‘a huge win for Cree Nation,’ says grand chief CBC Indigenous: Cree officials are welcoming changes to the way mining exploration happens in Quebec.  Eleven per cent of the province, much of it in northern Quebec Cree territory and Nunavik, is currently under an active claim, according to provincial officials....