RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:MORE B.SBetter do some research and then review what Coutts is selling ???
Here is the band at the end of Coutts route making comments to the Feds that they have No issue
with Marten Falls tribe members being able to get to the outside world but they GOT ISSUE with what the route is or will be used
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They seem to target industry without coming out stating any individual company ??????
LIKE I SAID
Coutts has nothing and there is a long hard fight coming
The JOKE IS ON YOU AND FOOLS believing Coutts BS
enjoy
Caitlin Cafaro, Crown Consultation Coordinator Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
600-55 York Street, Toronto, ON M5J 1R7 Email: IAAC.MartenFalls.AEIC@Canada.ca
Dear Ms. Caitlin Cafaro,
January 27, 2020
RE: Draft Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan and Draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Marten Falls Community Access Road Project Impact Assessment
On December 19th, 2019 the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) sent a letter to Aroland First Nation (AFN) inviting comments on the Draft Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan (IEEP) and the Draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (TISG) for the Marten Falls Community Access Road Project Impact Assessment. In this submission, we first provide our comments on the proposed IEEP, followed by our review of the draft TISG.
AFN has a unique relationship with the lands and waters throughout our ancestral lands. The proposed road lies within our traditional territory in an ecologically unique area that has not historically been well studied. The region retains archaeological, social, cultural, economic and spiritual significance to our community and serves as a gateway to some of our community’s prime harvesting locations. Stewardship and the protection of the environment are a foundational component of AFN’s way of life and frame our perspectives on and interactions with the land.
It is our position that presenting the Project in isolation without considering the cumulative effects of other proposed all-season road and mining projects in the region under-represents the potential impacts of the project. AFN holds the position that a regional assessment is absolutely necessary to assess the impacts of potential mineral development activity and its supporting infrastructure in the Ring of Fire. Once operating, all-season roads like this one will enable extensive mineral exploration development activities with widespread cumulative effects on our people, our way of life, our community well-being, and our inherent and established Aboriginal and Treaty rights.
Aroland recognizes the need and right for Marten Falls First Nation (MFFN) to be connected to the highway network to provide easier access and more opportunities for MFFN members and
reduce the costs associated with remote fly-in communities (e.g. higher cost of food and goods/services). However, given that both of the Project’s proposed right of ways traverse AFN’s traditional territory and that in order for traffic to reach the provincial highway system, further road access would be required through our territory and community, it is our position that the Project will have significant effects on our inherent and established Aboriginal and Treaty rights. We anticipate that the Project will significantly, permanently and irreversibly affect our ability to hunt, trap, gather and
engage in ceremony and traditional activities. Among First Nations in the region, AFN is the most at risk and will be the most affected by the Project, and its cumulative effects.
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In order to ensure that we are able to adequately participate throughout the process, to raise potential impacts, ensure adequate mitigation of effects and ensure that the costs do not outweigh the benefits, it is AFN’s position that a proper collaborative planning process and a role for AFN in the co- management of the MFFN Community Access Road is a required condition to obtain AFN’s support. AFN has sent a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to MFFN that sets out a two-way relationship for information sharing throughout the Project to this effect and expects to finalize the MOU with MFFN before the IAAC commences the Impact Assessment process for the Project.
Respectfully,
Councillor Sheldon Atlookan Aroland First Nation
Cc: Hon. Catherine McKenna, Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change