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Amy Hamm: Leonardo DiCaprio is meddling in B.C. environmental politics again

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Hollywood actor and self-described environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio is elated that a B.C. mining project — one that could inject billions of dollars into the province’s economy — has been delayed by an Indigenous land title claim.

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Only July 13, the actor posted a video on Instagram referencing a June 8 Supreme Court of B.C. decision which quashed the substantial start designation (SSD) for Seabridge Gold’s KSM project, as a “victory for Indigenous rights, lands and waters in British Columbia.”

In 2024, the mining project was designated as “substantially started,” a regulatory term that ultimately grants an environmental assessment certificate with no expiry date. Now, by order of the court, the province must consult with Tsetsaut Skii Km Lax Ha Nation over the project and reconsider the SSD entirely. It could set the KSM project — which has already been in the works since 2014 — back untold years.

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