Yukon government’s knuckles rapped by courts

The year 2014 closed out with yet another court decision regarding land use in a remote stretch of Canada, this time in northeastern Yukon’s vast Peel watershed. …

In a nutshell, Justice Veale ruled on Dec. 2 that the Yukon government violated its own land use planning process as laid out in the “Umbrella Final Agreement” that was signed in 1993 by the Canadian and Yukon governments and Yukon First Nations.

As a result, land use planning in the watershed – which began in 2004 – will return to the consultation stage with local First Nations and the general public.

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