The Inuit versus the oil patch in the eastern Arctic – Nunatsiaq News

November 24, 2014

“The right to be consulted is at the centre of this legal case”

NADER HASAN and JERRY NATANINE

A major legal challenge to a controversial National Energy Board decision will soon be heard in court.

This one’s going to make history. It’s the first true grassroots opposition to Canada’s drive to drill for oil in the Arctic, and it’s pushing back against an NEB that is willfully ignoring Aboriginal Canadians’ rights to free, prior and informed consent.

This past July, the Hamlet of Clyde River and the Nammautaq Hunters and Trappers Organization filed a claim at the Federal Court of Appeal disputing a decision by the NEB to permit seismic testing in Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait.

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