Matthew Hillermann

Whose land is it anyway?

By Matthew Hiltermann Photos by Mark Burnham CALGARY (The Gauntlet) — With all the debate around Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, competing interests fail to question the ownership of the land on which it is projected to be built. One look at a map would suggest that the land is well within the generally accepted boundaries of Canada, however, a closer look says otherwise. As it stands, treaties have not been established in most of British Columbia, except for Vancouver Island, 2,000 square kilometers in northwest BC and the northeast corner of the province. Therefore, the land on which the pipeline…

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