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Mining and Mineral Exploration
The First Nations Energy and Mining Council continues to advocate on behalf of British Columbia’s Indigenous peoples and communities to improve and ensure mineral exploration and mining law and policy align with the B.C. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act to best support the human rights of Indigenous peoples through ‘free, informed, and prior consent’.
June 2015 – Uncertainty Upstream: Potential Threats from Tailings Facility Failures in Northern British Columbia
2014 – Resource Agreements: Protecting the Land, Sharing the Wealth
January 2014 – Time for Change: Options for Reform of BC Mining & Environmental Assessment Laws
Template Mining Exploration Agreement
January 2014 – World Indigenous Mining Participation Agreements Presentation
March 2010 – Sharing the Wealth: First Nations Resource Participation Models
Mining and Consent Project
With the generous support of the Law Foundation of British Columbia, FNEMC is undertaking this Implementing Consent for Mining on Indigenous Lands Project to explore ways to implement “free, prior and informed consent” in relation to mining. This principle is integral to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is being implemented in BC through the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Indigenous nations increasingly rely on the UN Declaration to protect their lands in the face of resource development – this project will help in the development of tools to support protection of cutures and lands.
There are four parts to this project – each part is described and relevant links are included for each.
Part 1: Expert Issue Papers and Expert Webinars
A summary of the issues surveyed by each and links to the papers can be found here:
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A. INDIGENOUS CONTEXT:
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B. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
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C. BC MINING CONTEXT
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Part 2 Discussion Paper
We will also release the results of jurisdictional scan which will provide an overview of consent developments in other jurisdictions.
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Part 3: Community Webinars
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Part 4: Final Mining and Consent Report
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