
Aboriginal Law Report
By Bruce McIvor
Here's our update for the week ending May 22, 2016.
The National Energy Board recommended approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
- Kevin Libin: Trudeau’s manhandling of the NEB makes Trans Mountain approval meaningless
- First Nations vow to kill Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion with lawsuits
- Is green light for Trans Mountain a red light for Northern Gateway?
- Kennedy Stewart: Trudeau needs to stop Kinder Morgan
- Kinder Morgan approval a “call to arms” says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
- Les Leyne: It’s hard to see bitumen reaching Pacific
- First Nations say they have the power to stop controversial pipeline expansion
- First Nations vow to fight Trans Mountain despite NEB approval
- NEB gives Ottawa deadline to resolve TransMountain pipeline debate
- Trans Mountain Pipeline? 'Yes, But…' Says NEB
- Pipeline politics: B.C. government says NEB's Trans Mountain approval no guarantee
- First Nations vow to fight Trans Mountain despite NEB approval
Days before the NEB decision on Kinder Morgan, the federal government announced yet another consultation process for the same pipeline.
While the NEB was preparing to release its Kinder Morgan decision, Indigenous people were taking their opposition directly to company shareholders.
Implementation of UNDRIP continued to make the news.
- First Nations, Metis want say in UN declaration implementation
- Setting priorities key to implementing UN declaration on indigenous rights, expert says
- Report warns a literal reading of UN indigenous rights declaration could lead to ‘discord’
- Trudeau cloaks continued attack on First Nations sovereignty with charm
- The Trudeau Restoration
The Tsilhqot'in decided not to approve a mining exploration company's work in their territory.
First Nations voiced opposition to Ontario's new climate change legislation.
The residential schools agreement continued to draw criticism.
The effect of the Daniels decision continued to be debated.
In New Brunswick, First Nations continued to voice their opposition to a proposed mine.
A former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia was praised for an early Aboriginal fishing rights decision.
From the Courts
In Ontario, the Crown sought to avoid a trial on Indigenous logging rights.
In New Brunswick the case against an oil export terminal was heard in court.
The recent Coastal First Nations decision on the provincial environmental equivalency agreement will not affect a series of projects in northern British Columbia.
- Peace Region oil & gas projects exempt from supreme court ruling
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal refused to grant a stay of a lower court decision on the proper forum for determining
Treaty rights.
Quote of the Week
“In many ways not only is the NEB process completely broken, it’s an absolute sham."
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
Off the Bookshelf
"People who talk instead of do give me a pain in the arse."
Thomas Berger, Little Big Man (1964)
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