MB - Reform laws around mining
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:20 amMB - Reform laws around mining.
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Letters: John Fefchak - April 7, 2025
EXCERPT: "Standards required for success regarding our mineral supply can only be achieved through meaningful law and policy reform.
Manitoba’s current law and policy is broken. It fails the standard of free prior informed consent, integration of Indigenous and Western knowledge, lacks meaningful public engagement, lacks supports for citizens seeking to protect their homes and livelihoods, is full of gaps, weakness, loopholes, exemptions, unaccountable and as transparent as a closed book. What little regulation that exists is simply not enforced.
From its early beginning, the NDP has claimed the environment as part of its core constituency. Many would like to think that the NDP has deep environmental roots, but growing evidence at the Manitoba provincial level, suggests that is no longer true! . . . . "
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[ https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opini ... -april-7-6 ]
Letters: John Fefchak - April 7, 2025
EXCERPT: "Standards required for success regarding our mineral supply can only be achieved through meaningful law and policy reform.
Manitoba’s current law and policy is broken. It fails the standard of free prior informed consent, integration of Indigenous and Western knowledge, lacks meaningful public engagement, lacks supports for citizens seeking to protect their homes and livelihoods, is full of gaps, weakness, loopholes, exemptions, unaccountable and as transparent as a closed book. What little regulation that exists is simply not enforced.
From its early beginning, the NDP has claimed the environment as part of its core constituency. Many would like to think that the NDP has deep environmental roots, but growing evidence at the Manitoba provincial level, suggests that is no longer true! . . . . "
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