The community wants the court to issue an order preventing Ontario from approving further mining claims in or around its territory, rescind those it’s already granted and establish a timeline for consultation. There are some 10,000 mining claims in Grassy Narrows’s interim area of interest for mining over more than 2,850 sq. km in the province’s far northwest, according to the court filing.
“We will protect our land and we just want to reiterate that any activity that’s in Grassy Narrows territory, we should be consulted, we should sit down together, and we should be informed,” Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle said in a news conference at Queen’s Park on Friday.
“These practices have to change. It’s damaging our land. We want our land to remain intact because of our cultural practices, our way of life.”
BC ruling
The case follows a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling last September saying that province…
