A Matter of Trust

One in to community context and a local voice on two of the polled Kitimat residents support or the project to advise the proponent and regulators somewhat support the Northern Gateway project, along the way. [...] WATL was eventually approved >. In the eyes of the community, both the proponent by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC, the and the regulator failed on the engagement front. [...] There was a joint regulatory process in this case, primarily in the hands of the Manitoba Clean >. There was broad agreement in the interviews Environment Commission (CEC) in co-operation with that the community and landowners did not the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. [...] The Bureau procurement tenders and then a final d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) governmental authorization interacted with was responsible for the public hearings, the the “flip” to a new proponent and Environmental Department for the general process undermined the trust in both the proponent and the provincial government for the final decision. [...] The treaty history affecting Elsipogtog As to the unique legal power of In the Haisla and Elsipogtog cases, the First Nation is one in which the Indigenous communities, two broad projects and the controversies swirling Mi’gmaq never ceded territory but and contending viewpoints prevail around them involved both Indigenous rather signed a “Peace and Friendship in the discourse.