Cold Lake First Nations chief says he’s ready to defend the federal Impact Assessment Act in court – The Hamilton Spectator
Dec. 19, 2024
(ANNews) – The chief of Cold Lake First Nations says he plans to intervene in the provincial government’s court challenge of the federal Impact Assessment Act on the feds’ side.
This comes after a group of Treaty 6 First Nations in northern Alberta wrote to federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault requesting a federal impact assessment for a proposed multi-billion-dollar carbon storage network on their territory.
“We are federal people,” Chief Kelsey Jacko of Cold Lake First Nations told Alberta Native News. “We did not sign a Treaty with Alberta.”
