First Nation tells court it should have been consulted after artifacts found

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Members of a northern British Columbia First Nation are arguing in court that they should have been consulted on an archaeological mitigation plan prepared by a natural gas company on their traditional territory.

The Unist'ot'en house group of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and hereditary chief Knedebeas filed an application for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Work was temporarily suspended while the commission investigated, and it announced on March 8 that archeologists had found four stone artifacts that were likely not in their original location. The company says in the March 8 news release that it contracted an archaeologist to develop the mitigation plan in case of discoveries that would involve soil testing, visual inspections and ongoing monitoring.

But they say they didn't receive a copy of the mitigation plan until after it had already been approved and call for the plan to be quashed or set aside.

 

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The so called artifacts were PLANTED in an effort to disrupt. They were likely in on it and no consultation wss needed.

The dispute will be settled using the traditional Native language: bags of money Until the next “dispute”...and the next and the next....

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