More Tsilhqot' in fallout in BC

摘要

One recent resource development story in B.C. shows how the ground rules for project developers are changing forever in the province after the Supreme Court of Canada's precedent-setting Tsilhqot'in decision in June and Imperial Metals' massive tailings dam breach at Mount Polley in August. In late November, four First Nations communities that are part of the Secwepemc nation in central B.C. tabled a 54-page "mining policy" for all mineral development in what they call their "unsurrendered and unextinguished title and rights throughout the Secwepemc traditional territory."