Government violated duty to consult Taku River Tlingit First Nation over Chieftain Mine Project – Business in Vancouver
The province breached its duty to consult with a northern British Columbia first nation on a mine in their traditional territory, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.
Justice George Macintosh also criticized the Ministry of the Environment’s determination that the Chieftain Mine in northwestern B.C. had been “substantially started.”
The company had until December 2012 to start its project before its environmental assessment certificate expired. But in April 2012, the company requested a determination that the project had been started. B.C.’s environmental assessment office approved the request but did not notify the Taku River Tlingit.
B.C.’s Ministry of the Environment must now make its decision again.
