The Duty to Consult and Environmental Assessments: A Study of Mining Cases from across Canada

• Main Author: Thomson, Jeffrey
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2015
• Subjects: Environmental Assessments; Duty to Consult; Impact and Benefit Agreements; Canadian Aboriginals; Mining in Canada; Sustainability; Cumulative Effects; Legacy Effects; Environmental and Resource Studies; British Columbia; Canada; Taku; Taku River; tlingit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9305

In 2004, two pivotal court cases, Haida First Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) and Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia (Project Assessment Director), were heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. These two cases were fundamental in establishing the duty to consult and ac...