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What did I tell you just a few short days ago? This is huge. You scoffed.
The legal ground shifted under the feet of startled Canadian First Nations leaders and the government and industry officials they deal with after a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday.
Canada's highest court, for the first time in the country's history, granted title to a vast piece of B.C. land to a First Nation.
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She also noted many First Nations along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway route have strong title claims.
So with the court declaring that title can include large territories rather than specific little postage-stamp plots of land, the door is open to some First Nations being in a position to stop the Calgary firm in its tracks.
Enbridge is "probably back on its heels" as a result of the decision, Phillip crowed.
Two experts agreed the project, deeply opposed by most B.C. First Nations, is in trouble.
"If Northern Gateway still wishes to proceed with this application - and I think they may rethink it at this point - then I think this decision has given some very strong leverage to First Nations to hold the application up in court for many years to come," said University of Victoria law professor Chris Tollefson.
University of B.C. law professor Gordon Christie cited a passage in the ruling that could have ominous implications for Northern Gateway.
I doubt very much this pipeline will ever be built. In fact, because BC has 25 conservative members of the federal government who are not likely to be re elected due to the governments assent on the project, I doubt our current RWNJs will be the government in 2016.
I doubt very much this pipeline will ever be built. In fact, because BC has 25 conservative members of the federal government who are not likely to be re elected due to the governments assent on the project, I doubt our current RWNJs will be the government in 2016.
I doubt very much this pipeline will ever be built. In fact, because BC has 25 conservative members of the federal government who are not likely to be re elected due to the governments assent on the project, I doubt our current RWNJs will be the government in 2016.
Many are hoping for the same thing in the U.S. regarding our current RWNJs.
What did I tell you just a few short days ago? This is huge. You scoffed.
The legal ground shifted under the feet of startled Canadian First Nations leaders and the government and industry officials they deal with after a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday.
Canada's highest court, for the first time in the country's history, granted title to a vast piece of B.C. land to a First Nation.
***
She also noted many First Nations along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway route have strong title claims.
So with the court declaring that title can include large territories rather than specific little postage-stamp plots of land, the door is open to some First Nations being in a position to stop the Calgary firm in its tracks.
Enbridge is "probably back on its heels" as a result of the decision, Phillip crowed.
Two experts agreed the project, deeply opposed by most B.C. First Nations, is in trouble.
"If Northern Gateway still wishes to proceed with this application - and I think they may rethink it at this point - then I think this decision has given some very strong leverage to First Nations to hold the application up in court for many years to come," said University of Victoria law professor Chris Tollefson.
University of B.C. law professor Gordon Christie cited a passage in the ruling that could have ominous implications for Northern Gateway.
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