Northern BC Treaty Rights
A First Nation up north was getting pushed around by a logging company that didn't wanna recognize their ancestral harvesting rights. We spent eighteen months digging through historical records and treaty documents...
Mining Project Overhaul
Mid-sized mining operation in the Interior was facing some serious heat from regulators. Their environmental management system was basically held together with duct tape and hope...
Sacred Water Protection
This one kept me up at night for two years. A community was watching their sacred waterways get threatened by upstream industrial development, and nobody seemed to care about their constitutional rights...
Pipeline Consultation Challenge
Energy company wanted to run a pipeline through traditional territory without proper consultation. Classic case of corporations treating Indigenous consent like a box to check rather than a right to respect...
Coastal Fishing Rights Restoration
Coastal Nation had been fighting for decades to get their traditional fishing territories recognized. Federal regulations kept chipping away at access that'd been promised in treaties signed over a century ago...
Forestry Standards Update
Major forestry outfit needed to get ahead of new environmental regulations before they kicked in. They came to us six months before deadline, which honestly wasn't much time considering the scope...
Heritage Site Protection
Developer wanted to bulldoze an area that'd been used for ceremonies for generations. The usual story - economic development trumping cultural preservation. Not on our watch...
Wildlife Corridor Preservation
Provincial highway expansion was gonna cut right through critical wildlife migration routes that a Nation had been stewarding forever. This one required some creative legal thinking...
Resource Partnership Framework
Resource company actually wanted to do things right for once. They approached us to help structure a genuine partnership with local Nations rather than the usual "benefits agreement" BS...
