{"id":936,"date":"2023-07-02T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/landuseplanninginbc\/?post_type=chapter&p=936"},"modified":"2024-02-03T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:35:39","slug":"natural_resources-overview","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/landuseplanninginbc\/chapter\/natural_resources-overview\/","title":{"raw":"Overview","rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"raw":"The Natural Resources Planning Case Study covers two geographic areas.\u00a0 The Case describes the joint environmental assessment for the Kemess North mining proposal, which concluded with a ground-breaking decision against the project.\u00a0 The Application is about joint land use planning between the Haida Nation and the Province.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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Case.\u00a0 Kemess North:\u00a0 Rights, Title, and Subsurface Resources\r\n<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<\/header>\r\n

The environmental assessment of the Kemess North gold and copper mine is unique for many reasons.\u00a0 From a natural resource land use planning perspective, the assessment process offers important insights about how conflicts among private rights to subsurface minerals, provincial strategic land use planning, and title and rights of Indigenous Nations are addressed.\u00a0 In particular, the Kemess North case highlights the efforts of the Tse Keh Nay, a tripartite coalition of Indigenous Nations in northern British Columbia, to oppose the development of this mine within its traditional territories.\u00a0 This case includes a review of mineral tenure law in BC, for which rights to subsurface resources centre on \u2018free entry\u2019 of mining proponents.\u00a0 This review is followed by a history of the Kemess North development proposal, and the corresponding environmental assessment in relation to Tse Keh Nay rights and title.\u00a0 Students are encouraged to consider strengths and weaknesses of regional land use planning, including consultation protocols in British Columbia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Application.\u00a0 <\/strong>Joint Planning on Haida Gwaii<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<\/header> \r\n

The Council of the Haida Nation and the Province of British Columbia are in a joint (government-to-government) land use planning process.\u00a0 The Haida Gwaii\/Queen Charlotte Islands Land Use Plan Recommendations Report and Addenda (hereafter, Recommendations Report) has been completed and the two governments are working toward a final strategic land use plan.\u00a0 As part of this work, the Council of the Haida Nation and the Province are negotiating an agreement for the amount of lands to be designated as protected areas (PAs) and as no-mining watersheds (NMWs).\u00a0 To reach agreement, the two parties identified options for each tenure (PAs and NMWs).\u00a0 As an expert in joint land use planning, the learner has been hired as a third-party consultant to advise both parties and to recommend which options for PAs and NMWs should be adopted as part of a joint strategic land use planning agreement.<\/p>\r\n

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