Alberta: Alberta Court Of Queen’s Bench Gives Green Light To A Comprehensive Constitutional Challenge To The Tar Sands Developments

Alberta: Alberta Court Of Queen’s Bench Gives Green Light To A Comprehensive Constitutional Challenge To The Tar Sands Developments   Almost four years after the Beaver Lake Cree Nation commenced their case against the expansion of the tar sands, the case will go to trial. In a judgment issued on March 28, 2012, Madame Justice B. A. Browne rejected Alberta and Canada’s efforts to have the case dismissed.   In a historic precedent-making decision the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench has...

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