by LaurenEBS | Jan 19, 2024 | Aboriginal Title, overlap
The thorny issue of aboriginal rights overlap in the Nass Valley region will be the subject of rights and title claim by the Gitanyow First Nation later this year in October. The Gitanyow are seeking legal recognition of rights and title on 6,200 square kilometres of...
by LaurenEBS | Jan 17, 2024 | Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development
Hereditary chiefs say not all economic impacts of LNG are positive. While members of the Haisla and Nisga’a First Nations were talking about the economic benefits to their people from multi-billion dollar LNG projects in Kitimat and Prince Rupert at the BC Resources...
by LaurenEBS | Jan 17, 2024 | Aboriginal Title, overlap
In a landmark court ruling for access to justice for Indigenous Nations, Justice Stephens of the BC Supreme Court has dismissed the application of the Nisga’a Nation to be added as a defendant in the Aboriginal title litigation brought by the Gitanyow Hereditary...
by LaurenEBS | Jan 17, 2024 | Climate, Fisheries, LNG Development
The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs are sounding the alarm on the surging costs of living in Northwest British Columbia, directly associated with the LNG Canada project initiated in 2019. This concern is crucial as the Ksi Lisims LNG Project is now advancing through the...
by LaurenEBS | Jan 12, 2024 | Climate, Fisheries, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development
For some First Nations, the choice between economic self-sufficiency and environmental and climate concerns has arrived at a crossroads as the Coastal GasLink pipeline nears operation, critics say. Coastal GasLink, the disputed pipeline opposed by Wet’suwet’en...
