The Duty to Consult First Nations within the Environmental Assessment Process: A Resource Industry Perspective

• Main Author: Chadwick, Megan
• Other Authors: Cunningham, J. Barton
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: First Nations; Aboriginal; Environmental Assessment Process; British Columbia; BC; Resource Industry; Canada
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5140

The legal doctrine, ‘Duty to Consult’, was set through a number of landmark court cases between 1997 and 2004. It is this duty that has helped First Nations receive official stakeholder status in the negotiation of land and resource use issues in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Later, policy initiati...