Seismic testing controversy in North set for Supreme Court

'This is an important test case concerning aboriginal consultation on natural resource projects,' says Michael Byers a political science professor at the University of British Columbia.
The Clyde River Airport. Residents of this community are concerned about seismic testing planned for nearby Baffin Bay.
For the northern community of Clyde River, Nunavut, the sustainability of hunting and fishing is at the centre of a Supreme Court of Canada case around seismic testing that could test the limits of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. “The biggest concern we have is that the wildlife, the sea mamma...

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