VANCOUVER — A First Nation is suing the British Columbia and federal governments and the company behind a railway terminal port in the province's Interior, claiming it wasn't property consulted about the project it says has 'desecrated' its ancestral
VANCOUVER — A First Nation is suing the British Columbia and federal governments and the company behind a railway terminal port in the province's Interior, claiming it wasn't property consulted about the project it says has "desecrated" its ancestral territory.
In June 2021, Antoine said members of the Bonaparte staged a sit-in protest on the site of Ashcroft Terminal's inland port, where expansion activities unearthed ancestral remains and other culturally significant artifacts. In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the First Nation alleges Ashcroft Terminal misled the band about the scope of construction activities for the 300-acre railway terminal port.
The lawsuit says Ashcroft Terminal's construction and excavation activities have disturbed the remains and other archeologically significant artifacts on the site. Antoine said things "went quiet" afterwards, leaving the First Nation, again, shut out of discussions about development activity on their unceded traditional territory.
The Bonaparte First Nation claims in court that they were misled about the size of the inland port development plans, alleging Ashcroft deceptively presented the 300-acre terminal as "small-scale, piecemeal, bite-sized mini projects and proposals."
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