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Originally Posted by rubecube
Well the BC Supreme Court originally ruled that the NEB's approval process didn't fulfill the BC government's obligation to consult indigenous groups, so maybe this is related to that?
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I could be wrong, because I haven't read the decision, but that seems to me to be a separate issue. The duty to consult doesn't come from provincial edict, but from Section 35 of the
Constitution Act.
In other words, it seems to me that even if all 37 conditions have to do with aboriginal consultation, the BC Government has no more authority or jurisdiction to impose those conditions on Kinder Morgan than you or I do, unless I'm missing something (hence my original question).