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Hi all,
An article from the May 20th edition of The Vancouver Sun. Excerpts:
Nobody likes such fees, of course, but they only really become an issue when they start driving business away.
What`s new is that first nations are now being recognized as a level of government -- whether de facto or real -- that has to be consulted. And to their shock and quite legitimate consternation, other parties are starting to realize that the new requirement is going to add time, costs and confusion to the process.
The Tsleil-Waututh are just one of more than 100 bands in B.C., many of which have overlapping claims to traditional territory.
So the nightmare scenario for developers -- whether a private company, a municipality, as in the case of the water project for the Village of Belcarra or a Crown corporation, such as BC Hydro -- is that the duty to consult means they have to consult each first nation with a claim to the territory in which they hope to build.
So the nightmare scenario for the provincial economy is that the uncertainty of outcome and the certainty of higher costs related to the court-ordered duty to consult starts to drive investment away.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Duty+consult+f...1685/story.html
Keith
An article from the May 20th edition of The Vancouver Sun. Excerpts:
Nobody likes such fees, of course, but they only really become an issue when they start driving business away.
What`s new is that first nations are now being recognized as a level of government -- whether de facto or real -- that has to be consulted. And to their shock and quite legitimate consternation, other parties are starting to realize that the new requirement is going to add time, costs and confusion to the process.
The Tsleil-Waututh are just one of more than 100 bands in B.C., many of which have overlapping claims to traditional territory.
So the nightmare scenario for developers -- whether a private company, a municipality, as in the case of the water project for the Village of Belcarra or a Crown corporation, such as BC Hydro -- is that the duty to consult means they have to consult each first nation with a claim to the territory in which they hope to build.
So the nightmare scenario for the provincial economy is that the uncertainty of outcome and the certainty of higher costs related to the court-ordered duty to consult starts to drive investment away.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Duty+consult+f...1685/story.html
Keith