e-324 (Environmental assessment and review)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-118-01 Government Response to petitions concerning environmental assessment and review
- Aboriginal rights
- British Columbia
- Government accountability
- Peace River
- Site C Clean Energy Project
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- A joint federal-provincial environmental impact assessment concluded that the Site C dam project in British Columbia would “severely undermine” the rights of Indigenous peoples – rights that are protected by Treaty 8, section 35 (1) of the Canadian Constitution Act and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
- The Site C dam would impact over 330 archaeological sites, including sacred grounds and numerous burial sites by creating a reservoir 83 kilometres long;
- Treaty 8 has had to address these impacts through court challenges while permits continue to be issued by the Federal Government to allow construction to continue even while Treaty 8’s constitutional rights are being reviewed by the courts; and
- West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland Willson said the Site C dam will not pass the Sparrow test, a legal litmus test for determining if a government justifiably violates First Nations rights, because there is no demonstrable need for the Site C power. The Chair of the Joint Review Panel agrees that “the case that we need this power by 2024 was not made then and is in even worse shape now”.
- Open for signature
- May 3, 2016, at 2:41 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- August 31, 2016, at 2:41 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
-
Nathan Cullen
(Skeena—Bulkley Valley)
November 28, 2016 (Petition No. 421-00983) - Government response tabled
- January 30, 2017
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 107 |
British Columbia | 1566 |
Manitoba | 19 |
New Brunswick | 7 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 7 |
Northwest Territories | 1 |
Nova Scotia | 19 |
Nunavut | 1 |
Ontario | 126 |
Prince Edward Island | 6 |
Quebec | 25 |
Saskatchewan | 22 |
Yukon | 8 |