Clarity needed on aboriginal title and B.C.’s trillion-dollar LNG plan – BiV

June 8, 2015

In 2014, 50% of respondents to the Fraser Institute annual survey of mining company executives indicated that land uncertainty was either a strong deterrent to investment or a reason to simply not invest, up from 32% in 2013

Last summer I wrote that the Supreme Court’s Tsilhqot’in decision, which for the first time granted aboriginal title outside an Indian reserve, was going to be a real game-changer and would “increase uncertainty in Canada’s natural resource sectors in areas lacking treaties with First Nations.”

Since then we’ve seen First Nations in British Columbia serve eviction notices to corporations, take resource companies to court over title claims and, most recently, the Lax Kw’alaams Band reject a billion-dollar deal with Pacific NorthWest LNG for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project proposed on Crown land.

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