Mi’kmaq urged to look at LNG, fracking links – The Chronicle Herald

April 20, 2015

SYDNEY — The federal government’s process for aboriginal consultation is working fairly well, but it is fraught with some ethical dilemmas that First Nation negotiators in Nova Scotia will have to address, says a prominent Mi’kmaq lawyer.

That includes the possibility of opposing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for petroleum products, while accepting benefits from an industry that profits from the process.

Bernd Christmas, former CEO of Membertou and a partner with the Toronto firm Cassels Brock Lawyers, said Bear Head LNG Corp., which is planning a liquefied natural gas project in Point Tupper, followed the consultation process properly and is working on a benefits agreement with Mi’kmaq.

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