A court bid by seven Treaty One bands to stop an oil pipeline being built through southern Manitoba is stuck in Federal Court.
Court filings indicate the Crown wants to schedule a meeting with the First Nations' lawyers to get the ball rolling as construction is now ongoing on the Keystone Pipeline Project, but so far nothing has been arranged.
The seven First Nations filed an appeal for judicial review asking a judge to stall the pipeline project until Ottawa holds consultations with them. The bands hope those talks will turn into a funding deal that would give them a source of revenue, similar to property taxes collected on the pipeline by rural municipalities.
The pipeline doesn't go through reserve land, but on land the bands consider their territory.
It will funnel oil from Alberta tarsands to the U.S. Midwest.
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