A radical revamp of environmental reviews is needed or mines and other projects will face costly delays, British Columbia First Nation leaders warned Thursday.
"There is no question that separate provincial and federal environmental reviews result in costly and potentially unnecessary delays," said Ed John, an official with the B.C. First Nations Summit. "But if government or industries believe that two flawed processes can simply be replaced by one bad one, they are mistaken," said John, a grand chief of the Tl'azt'en Nation in north-central B.C.
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