First Nations’ Resource Policies

Footnotes

  1. BC First Nations Energy & Mining Council, BC First Nations Mineral Exploration and Mining: Action Plan (West Vancouver: BC First Nations Energy & Mining Council, 2008) at 3.
  2. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Reclamation Policy at 2: “The [Reclamation] policy will be the basis for the development of reclamation guidelines and appropriate terms and conditions to be included in licences, leases, and other authorizations issued by the RIAs and NTI”.
  3. Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy, at 4; Cree Nation Government, Cree Nation Mining Policy, at 3.
  4. Mikisew Cree First Nation v Canada (Minister of Canadian Heritage), 2005 SCC 69, [2005] 3 SCR 388, para 65.
  5. B C First Nations Energy and Mining Council, First Nations Mining Protocols & Agreements (2011), online: <http://fnbc.info/fnemc/first-nations-mining-protocols-agreements-materials-cd>.
  6. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2007), ss 4, online <http://fnbc.info/sites/default/files/documents/TRTFN%20Mining%20Policy.pdf>.
  7. Cree Nation Government, Cree Nation Mining Policy at 4.
  8. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Mining Policy at 2, online: <http://www.tunngavik.com/documents/publications/1997-12-00-Mining-Policy.pdf>.
  9. Wahnapitae First Nation, Wahnapitae First Nation Resource Development Policy (9 March 2010), ss 3, online: <http://www.wahnapitaefirstnation.com/images/stories/wfn_pdfs/resource_development2010.pdf>.
  10. BC First Nations Energy & Mining Council, BC First Nations Mineral Exploration and Mining: Action Plan (West Vancouver: BC First Nations Energy & Mining Council, 2008) at 13.
  11. BC First Nations Energy & Mining Council, Sharing the Wealth: First Nation Resource Participation Models (March 2010), at 4, online: <http://fnbc.info/sharing-wealth-first-nation-resource-participation-models>; Tahltan Central Council, Resource Development Policy; Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Mining Policy at 2.
  12. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), paras 11-12, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>.
  13. Wahnapitae First Nation, Resource Development Policy, s 4.8.
  14. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Mining Policy at 6; Champagne & Aishihik First Nations, Best Practices Code for Mineral Interests on Non-Settlement Land, at 6-7.
  15. Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy (March 2008) at 5, online: <http://fnbc.info/sites/default/files/documents/Teslin%20Tlingit%20Mining%20Policy.pdf>; Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment ), para 2, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>; Champagne & Aishihik First Nations, Best Practices Code for Mineral Interests on Non-Settlement Land at 6.  Note that these criteria are similar to the criteria for consultation set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of consultation cases.
  16. Tesling Tlingit Council, Mining Policy (March 2008) at 5-6, online: <http://fnbc.info/sites/default/files/documents/Teslin%20Tlingit%20Mining%20Policy.pdf>.
  17. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2997), s 14(d)(iii), online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  18. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2997), s 4(b), online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  19. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2007), Schedule C, ss 14-16, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  20. Champagne & Aishihik First Nations, Best Practices Code for Mineral Interests on Non-Settlement Land, at 4.
  21. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 5, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>.
  22. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 8, at 7, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>; Tahltan Central Council, Resource Development Policy; Wahnapitae First Nation, Resource Development Policy, s 5.6.
  23. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, Schedule C, s 5.
  24. Ta’an Kwach’an Council, Lands and Resources Act (First Reading), s 36(1).
  25. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, s 6(b).
  26. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, Schedule C, ss 14-16. See also Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy, Schedule C, ss 6-12.
  27. Innu Nation Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 3, at 6, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>; Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Mining Policy, at 4.
  28. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 10, at 7, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>.
  29. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship, (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 11, at 7, online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>.
  30.  Cree Nation Government, Mining Policy, at 6.
  31. Champagne & Aishihik First Nations, Best Practices Code for Mineral Interests on Non-Settlement Land, at 12.
  32.  Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, Schedule C, s 9.
  33. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Water Policy, at 6: these guiding principles specify in which way the significance of change may be influenced (e.g. volume of water impacted, duration of the change, and the permanence or reversibility of the change).
  34. First Nations Mining Summit, The State of Mineral Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 2008, (Prince George: First Nations Mining Summit, 2008), at 25; Inuvialuit Final Agreement Between the Committee for Original Peoples’ Entitlement and the Government of Canada, 26 October 1985, s 6.4.
  35. Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox & Stephen J. Mills, Devolution and Resource Revenue Sharing in the Canadian North: Achieving Fairness across Generations, (Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, 2007) at 15, online: <http://www.gordonfn.org/resfiles/Irlbacher-Fox_Mills_2007_DevolutionAndResourceRevenueSharing.pdf>.
  36. First Nations Mining Summit, The State of Mineral Exploration and Mining in British Columbia, 2008 (Prince George: First Nations Mining Summit, 2008), at 25.
  37. First Nations Mining Summit, The State of Mineral Exploration and Mining in British Columbia, 2008 (Prince George: First Nations Mining Summit, 2008), at 25.
  38. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), at 43.
  39. The Government of Canada, Sustainable Development Principles, online: <http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/enr/sd/princ-eng.asp>.
  40. Cree Nation Government, Cree Nation Mining Policy at 5.
  41. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, Schedule C.
  42. Innu Nation, Guidelines for the Mining Industry: A Matter of Respect, Building a Successful Relationship (Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Director of Innu Rights and Environment), para 6, at 6; online: <http://www.miningwatch.ca/sites/miningwatch.ca/files/Innu_guidelines.pdf>.
  43. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), s 38.
  44.  Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), s 41.
  45. Innu Nation & MiningWatch Canada, Conference Results from Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining, Ottawa, September 10-12, 1999, (Ottawa: Mining Watch Canada, 1999) at 28.
  46. See, e.g., Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, ss 11,14, 17; Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy, at 7-8.
  47. Contact information for First Nations resource managers could be also provided in an improved provincial Mineral Titles Online system. This would assist proponents to identify the appropriate contacts in the First Nations community on whose traditional territories they are proposing to carry out mining activities.
  48. Elmar Plate, Malcolm Foy & Rick Krehbiel, Best Practices for First Nation Involvement in Environmental Assessment Reviews of Development Projects in British Columbia, (West Vancouver: New Relationship Trust, 2009), at Best Practice #19.
  49. One way of doing this is by illustrating a community’s governance organization in a chart and attaching it as a schedule to the First Nations’ resource policy.
  50. Innu Nation & MiningWatch Canada, Conference Results from Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining, Ottawa, September 10-12, 1999, (Ottawa: Mining Watch Canada, 1999), at 5.
  51. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, Schedule B, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  52. Annie Booth and Norm Skelton, Industry and government perspectives on First Nations’ participation in the British Columbia environmental assessment process (Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31 (2011) 216–25), at 222. Mining companies and provincial ministries can improve communications by making contributions to First Nations to cover meeting costs with community members and Council.
  53.  Government of British Columbia, The New Relationship with First Nations and Aboriginal People, online: <http://www.newrelationship.gov.bc.ca/shared/downloads/new_relationship.pdf>.
  54.  Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, s 5, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  55. UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, GA Res 61/295, 61st Sess, Supp No 53, UN Doc A/61/295, (2007) [UNDRIP].
  56. Law Commission of Canada, Justice Within: First Nations Legal Traditions, (Ottawa, August 2006), at8.
  57. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy, s 5, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>; Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy, at 3; Cree Nation Government, Mining Policy, at 6.
  58. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 14-16, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  59. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 18-25, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  60. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 16-31, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  61. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 32-33, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  62. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 34-35, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  63. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 36-37, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>.
  64. Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Mining Policy (March 2008), ss 14-16, online: <http://trtfn.yikesite.com/downloads/mining-policy-2.pdf>; Teslin Tlingit Council, Mining Policy at 8; Goldfields Land & Sea Council, Mining Policy (Australia), s 3.2.

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