The Blueberry River First Nation from northeastern B.C. has filed a lawsuit against the province for allowing “unprecedented industrial disturbance” to threaten “their way of life,” according to a press statement released Wednesday.
The suit will call into question the future of industrial development in the northeast region of the province, including the Site C dam and natural gas fracking projects intended to feed B.C.’s burgeoning LNG industry.
The First Nation argues their territory “has been ravaged by development.”
“Blueberry’s ancestors would not recognize our territory today. It is covered by oil and gas wells, roads, pipelines, (Read more…)