For the second time, the province and the Tahltan Central Government have come to a consent agreement on a northwestern B.C. mining project.
The agreement, signed Nov. 1 in Vancouver, will allow Newcrest Mining to seek approval to vastly expand the lifespan of its Red Chris gold-copper-silver mine in B.C.’s “Golden Triangle” by developing a block-caving operation.
Under the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) – which is based on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – resource projects require the free, prior and informed consent of First Nations affected by them.
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