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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (41)	7/11/2005 3:38:27 PM
From: Dennis Roth	of 570

Ottawa, Deh Cho settle lawsuit threatening to delay Mackenzie pipeline Bob Weber Canadian Press July 11, 2005 canada.com (CP) - The federal government and a northern aboriginal group have reached an out-of-court settlement on a lawsuit that threatened to block a proposed $7-billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline. "With this agreement, Canada's discussion with the Deh Cho First Nations on land, resources and governance are back on track and will proceed with renewed vigour - and in turn generate greater certainty in the Mackenzie Valley," Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott said in a release Monday. The deal gives the Deh Cho both greater influence in the environmental oversight of the pipeline and $15 million in economic development funding. It does not, however, mean that talks are over. The Deh Cho and Ottawa will now resume land claim and self-government negotiations the lawsuit had derailed. Energy companies seeking to operate on land claimed by the Deh Cho will still have to work out a deal. "We still have some very difficult negotiations ahead with the oil companies that want to access our lands," said Grand Chief Herb Norwegian. The 4,500 members of the Deh Cho, the only major aboriginal group in the Northwest Territories that hasn't signed onto the project, cover virtually the entire southwest corner of the N.W.T. Forty per cent of the pipeline's planned route would cross land they claim. The lawsuit was filed more than a year ago over concerns the environmental review panel for the pipeline project didn't have adequate representation from the Deh Cho. The statement of claim asked the court to grant an injunction stopping the pipeline review until the Deh Cho were included in the review process, or else declare any decision reached by the review panel invalid. The lawsuit was seen as one of the factors that caused Imperial Oil to cancel preparatory engineering work it had scheduled for this summer. A settlement had been said to be close for months. © The Canadian Press 2005

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