Indigenous groups say UN declaration improving relations with Canadian mine operators – Owen Sound Sun Times
Communities ‘finally have a voice’ on how projects impact their lands
Jun 14, 2022
First Nations leaders involved in two Canadian mining projects say their communities “finally have a voice” since Canada’s implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDRIP) came into force almost a year ago.
“UNDRIP opens a lot of doors,” Chief Theresa Nelson of Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek First Nation, the lead negotiator with the Greenstone Gold project in Northern Ontario, told a panel at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in downtown Toronto on Monday.
Construction of the mine has been ongoing, with drilling and blasting within the site set to occur regularly in the following months.
