An Island First Nation has received an historic apology from a resource company that left their land deeply mined over decades without compensation. The Quatsino First Nation near Port Hardy will never see the Island copper mine restarted, but the company involved is now looking to right old wrongs.
Posted: Sep. 20, 2022 6:21PMNear the northern tip of Vancouver Island, the Quatsino First Nation is home to an area rich in natural beauty, with inlets, wildlife and a reliance on the land that Indigenous families have carved a way of life from for generations.“It killed the beach in front of our village,” said Quatsino First Nation Chief Tom Nelson.
The mine removed one billion tonnes of ore, before its closure and flooding forever capped its usefulness, without paying any royalties to the First Nation, or ever consulting them on the project that left the Quatsino people’s shorelines that were once rich in sea urchins, ling cod and abalone, forever changed by the dumping of stadiums full of waste rock from the mines.“After the mine opened up that all went. There was nothing left for me to go and harvest in our favourite spots,” he said.
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