Members of multiple environmental organizations are looking to acquire intervener status in a Gitxaala legal challenge against BC.
In October of 2021, the Gitxaala Nation filed the case in the BC Supreme Court, requesting a review of seven mineral claims on their territory.
Each of those claims were granted by the province between 2018 and 2020, without the Nation’s consent.
But the case also seeks to determine whether or not the province’s free-entry mineral claim staking process is in line with the Constitution and UNDRIP.
Today, the courts will begin hearing from several organizations who have applied for intervener status in the litigation.
Greg Knox, Executive Director of SkeenaWild, is among them, and says the Mineral Tenure Act cannot continue to allow for automatic approvals without Indigenous consent.
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