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CCPA-BC Submission to the Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel /

4 Jul 2018

Roughly half of the 51 structures that the OGC allowed to be built on its watch fully qualified as dams under the old Water Act and were required to conform to the rules and regulations then in place. [...] Fracking and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples As part of your mandate, you have been asked to carry out your duties in accordance with the Province’s adoption and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [...] In various documents filed with the First Nation by the proponent and with the knowledge of the OGC, the dam was variously described as a “water storage site” or a “proposed irregular shaped water storage site” or a “water storage pit.”7 The word ‘dam’ appeared nowhere in the written materials sent to the Blueberry River First Nation. [...] Page 8 | CCPA Submission to the BC Rental Housing Task Force ______________________________________________________________________________________ If the very nature of the project is misconstrued as it was in this case (a pit is a hole in the ground not a wall of earth rising above ground level to the height of a seven-st [...] In December 2017, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation successfully argued before the Supreme Court of British Columbia that the OGC had failed in its duty to consult the Nation and accommodate the Nation’s concerns about a proposed gas pipeline to be built through a portion of its territory.
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Pages
10
Published in
Calgary, AB, CA

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