Crown may proceed with BC logging auction against First Nations’: wishes: court – Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER – A judge has refused to block British Columbia’s government from auctioning off 15 logging licences within the traditional territory of a First Nation in the province’s northeast.
B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed an injunction application by the Blueberry River First Nations connected to almost 1,700 hectares of marketable timber in the upper Peace River Region.
The application is part of a much broader lawsuit in which the First Nation alleges its treaty rights have been violated wholesale, in a region that will be home to the province’s controversial Site C hydroelectric dam.
