October 28, 2024
Multiple Indigenous governments have filed paperwork telling a regulator it should proceed with an environmental assessment of Imperial Oil’s Norman Wells facility over Imperial’s objections.
The Tłı̨chǫ Government, Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę Government and a committee of Fort Good Hope leaders said the ability to refer a project to environmental assessment – as the Sahtu Secretariat did with Imperial’s facility in September – is a treaty right that Imperial cannot contest.
The GNWT, however, said an environmental assessment referral was “premature.”