Resource firms move ahead with UNDRIP compliance as B.C. legal changes lag
Nalaine Morin, Skeena’s vice-president of sustainability and the former lands director at the Tahltan Central Government, said the mining company had already been working with the First Nation for years on collaborative consent-seeking, laying the foundation that made the agreement possible.
“That was basically from day one,” said Morin, who is a Tahltan Nation member. “They signed some of the first agreements — exploration agreements and communications agreements — with the Tahltan Central Government,” Morin said. Skeena isn’t alone. Brian Sullivan, CEO of Conuma Resources based in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., estimated that more than 50 per cent of his duties now involve working on compliance with UNDRIP, First Nations communities’ interests and regulatory compliance.
“Without that fundamental respect from the starting point, we don’t have that licence to operate in the Treaty 8 territory,” Sullivan said. He added that “we recognize that we have a period of stewardship on that land and that it takes the co-operation of the resource companies, and the nations, and the regulators in order to do it correctly.”
“The companies are doing it for self-interest because they don’t want to be dictated ,” Alexander said.
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