Premiers Can’t Veto Energy East: MLI’s Newman – MLI
Given the current spat between Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, it’s worth revisiting MLI’s commentary on the energy East Pipeline debate. Wall has accused Notley of…
Pictou Landing takes mill permit to top court – The Chronicle Herald
July 16, 2015 Pictou Landing First Nation is taking its Northern Pulp appeal to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Earlier this year, the Environment Department issued an industrial permit…
An environmental law professor’s take on B.C.’s pricing of groundwater – The Globe and Mail
Jul. 16, 2015 The B.C. government announced plans this week to re-examine new legislation that would, for the first time, regulate groundwater use in the province. Under the Water Sustainability…
Fair Elections Act court challenge voter ID ruling expected today – CBC
Jul 17, 2015 Council of Canadians, students fear thousands of voters without ID will be disenfranchised this fall An Ontario judge rules today on a challenge to the Conservative government’s…
Henvey Inlet wind project gets $3M boost from feds – Canadian Manufacturing
300 megawatt project is scheduled to get underway next year HENVEY INLET, Ont.—The federal government has announced an investment of $3-million to support a proposed 300 megawatt wind farm project…
Inuit Org, AEM Sign Benefits Deal for Nunavut’s Meliadine Gold Project – Mining Life
“This is another step for a brighter future for Inuit” It took more than three years of talks — which broke down at least once — but the Kivalliq Inuit…
Yukon, N.W.T., Nunavut need more robust private sector: Canadian Chamber of Commerce – CBC
Jul 16, 2015 Territorial infrastructure bank among solutions suggested A new report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says a more robust private sector in the North would make for…
Group of Innus block access to Hydro-Québec site near Havre-Saint-Pierre – Montreal Gazette
More than a hundred people from the Nutashkuan Innu community have erected a barricade Wednesday on the road leading to the site of the La Romaine hydroelectric complex, near Havre-Saint-Pierre…
Membertou interchange will allow access to commercial development – CBC
Retail project compared to smaller-scale Dartmouth Crossing Membertou First Nation has opened an interchange that provides direct access from the highway into the community. Construction on the $8-million project began in the summer of 2012.…
To Talk Transboundary Mining, Taku Tlingit Put Folks in the Same Boat – Mining Life
Taku Tlingit reinforce cultural ties to land in discussion on transboundary mines Jul 15, 2015 Lillian Petershoare’s family fishes the Taku River and has done so for decades. A new…
