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Jamie Sarkonak: Yet another major project derailed over Indigenous spat

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Earlier this month, a B.C. court decided to cancel the official go-ahead to construct a gold mine in the north of the province because a few dozen Indigenous people weren’t, in its view, adequately consulted.

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It didn’t matter that the project, Seabridge Gold’s Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) mine, had already undergone 15 years of planning and consultations.

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It didn’t matter that $1.2 billion had already been spent on building early components of the mine like camps, roads and fish habitat. It didn’t matter that it had the support of two major Indigenous groups, whose members would reap jobs, contracts, training and development support through benefit agreements with the company. It didn’t matter that the mine had been put on the province’s “fast-track” list, or that it was expected to bring billions of dollars in much-needed revenue.

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