Building Aboriginal Relationships to Achieve Project Success

Presentation Overview ?? Project Setting ? Project Context ? Challenges ?? Managing Commitments ?? Project Update ?? Maximizing Aboriginal Economic Participation in Resource Development PROJECT SETTING ?? Developed on the traditional lands of the Labrador Inuit, and the Labrador Innu ?? Courts have held that Aboriginal peoples in Canada possess special rights to traditional lands ?? Rights can include requiring resource developers to enter into Impacts and Benefits Agreements ?? Development agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador was required