Alberta granted intervener status on Trans Mountain pipeline
Press Release May 16, 2017 Alberta has been granted leave to intervene on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project judicial review by the Federal Court of Appeal. Alberta…
AIAI: Disappointment in Batchewana Logging Case
Press Release Usually, a withdrawal of charges is welcome news. In this case, however, Batchewana First Nation was hoping to address jurisdictional issues of treaty and aboriginal rights Justice Romuald…
International organizations celebrate precedent-setting step toward justice in civil suit against Tahoe Resources in Canada for violence in Guatemala
(Guatemala/Montreal/Ottawa/Reno/Tatamagouche/Toronto/Washington, DC) Canadian and US civil society organizations wholeheartedly welcome a British Columbia Court of Appeals’ decision that Vancouver is the preferred forum for a civil suit to be heard…
China Minerals Reports Court Decision
Press Release China Minerals Mining Corporation (“China Minerals” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: CMV, US: HWTHF) reports that the BC Supreme Court has declined to hear its judicial review on the…
Media Advisory – January 25th Injunction Against Transcanada Pipelines Put Off: Summary Judgement To Be Sought In Next Few Months
Press Release TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2017 – The injunction motion brought by Aroland First Nation and Ginoogaming First Nation against TransCanada Pipelines to prevent its imminent integrity digs and other…
Lawsuit and injunction application brought by First Nations in Ontario against TransCanada Pipelines for work on the same line to be converted for the Energy East project
Press Release TORONTO, Jan. 9, 2017 – Two First Nations in northwest Ontario – Aroland and Ginoogaming – have just launched a precedent-setting lawsuit and injunction motion against TransCanada Pipelines,…
UBCIC Congratulates the Huu-ay-aht First Nation on Resolution of 68-Year-Old Logging Rights Case
Press Release (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – December 16, 2016) Sixty-eight years after the Huu-ay-aht First Nation first challenged Canada’s unlawful issuance of a long-term logging licence on the community’s…
Statements from Attawapiskat First Nation, NAN on Environmental Lawsuit
Press Release December 7, 2016 GATINEAU, QC: Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Ignace Gull and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler have issued the following statements following legal action…
Another victory in the Innu’s $900 million lawsuit against Rio Tinto (IOC)
Press Release UASHAT MAK MANI-UTENAM, QC, Oct. 20, 2016 – The Innu First Nations of Uashat mak Mani-utenam and Matimekush-Lac John welcome yesterday’s decision by the Quebec Superior Court, which…
Lawsuit filed by Sunvault Energy Inc. and Aboriginal Power Corp. against Catalyst Paper Discontinued
Press Release October 13, 2016 Richmond, (BC) – Catalyst Paper Corporation (TSX:CYT) is pleased to announce that Sunvault Energy Inc. and Aboriginal Power Corp. have discontinued the lawsuit previously commenced…
