Cattle ranchers in southeastern B.C. are growing more frustrated over government-run grazing land that is going unused, and ...

The federal government’s new law designed to fast-track major projects has put the true meaning of UNDRIP’s “free, prior and informed consent” provisions under the spotlight. At the core of the issue ...

BC Hydro has been quietly offering to transfer thousands of hectares of Crown land to First Nations in compensation for the $9-billion Site C dam. The secrecy surrounding the proposed land ...

The B.C. government’s approach to managing public lands is collapsing under its own contradictions. In the past year alone, First Nations, public interest groups, and industry proponents have ...

As such, the Crown alone would no longer have the power to make decisions about Crown land that it considers to be in the public interest. Public engagement is open until March 31, 2024 here. Share ...

Long before the small plot of land near a provincial park in Squamish, B.C., was a climbing haven, it belonged to the Squamish Nation — and now that it’s being returned, the future of the ...

BC government says payments demanded for access to Crown land ... Gavin Dirom recently raised concersn over First Nations demanding access payments from exploration companies to access Crown land.

Guide outfitters in BC want compensation for impacts from Tsilhqot'in aboriginal ... Guide outfitters lose access to former Crown land as result of Tsilhqot’in decision. Nelson Bennett Jul 15 ...

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations handles applications for development on Crown land through an agency called FrontCounter BC, sort of a one-stop shopping created to ...

When governments infringe aboriginal treaty rights, they are expected to provide some form of compensation to First Nations. The BC Guide Outfitters Association of BC (GOABC) and Adventure Tourism ...