The Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline easement: A Kluane First Nation case study

• Other Authors: Peetoom, Kai (Author), Booth, Annie (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution), Green, Scott (Committee member), Fraser, Tina (Committee member)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Northern British Columbia 2018
• Subjects: Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline > Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Kluane First Nation; Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline > Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Kluane First Nation > Yukon; First Nations; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A58841; https://doi.org/10.24124/2018/58841

The Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline (AHGP) is a major industrial development project proposed within the Yukon since 1977, which remains unconstructed. The AHGP Easement represents the most significant aspect of the AHGP in the Yukon and remains a long-standing land tenure right impeding southern Yukon First Nations. This applied research project partnered with Kluane First Nation (KFN) to identify and address potential consequences associated with the AHGP Easement that are currently relevant to KFN as a self-governing Yukon First Nation. Community-based, decolonizing qualitative research methodologies were employed to gather understandings of the AHGP Easement from key KFN citizens, as well as Yukon and federal government officials and industry representatives. Findings emerging from the research highlight issues of jurisdictional complexity among Indigenous peoples and the Crown, the need to consider contextual change, and problems with the existing regulatory, assessment and consultation framework for the AHGP. Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline industrial development project proposed AHGP Easement Kluane First Nation (KFN) Yukon First Nation jurisdictional complexity among Indigenous peoples