University of Calgary

Northern Gateway Pipeline Issues

Submitted by jwhamilt on Fri, 2012-01-27 16:56.

Northern Gateway Pipeline Issues

Nigel Bankes 2011Professor Nigel Bankes, Chair of Natural Resources Law, is quoted in "Questions raised over whether First Nations could stop Enbridge pipeline", an article in the January 27 edition of the Edmonton Journal.  He comments on the status of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on the governments' duty to “consult” and “accommodate” First Nations on land-use decisions, as applied to the Haisla First Nation.