Hard lessons for Kinder Morgan on First Nation rights in Trans Mountain pipeline project

Many First Nations in B.C. have declared projects on their traditional territories need their consent to get built, a major issue for developers most recently accentuated in the dispute over Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
But the law in Canada does not say that projects need First Nation consent, even as governments in Canada adopt the United Nation’s declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples that calls for free and informed consent before a