Bonaparte First Nation’s BC Supreme Court action aims to derail construction of Ashcroft Terminal’s 300-acre railway project near Kamloops
A B.C. First Nation has filed a BC Supreme Court lawsuit claiming that the owners of B.C.’s largest inland cargo terminal are responsible for the destruction of its ancient ancestral village at the mouth of the Bonaparte River.
The lawsuit wants the court to halt construction of the terminal, which is only partially completed, and all future ATL construction activities until “the conclusion of a deep consultation and accommodation process, and compensation for past breaches of [BFN’s] right to consultation and accommodation.”
Ashcroft, which has been in operation since 1997, is the only inland port in Canada that has both Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Canadian National Railway Co. mainlines running through it. In 2018, ATL announced the terminal project as a $28 million upgrade of its facilities. The federal government’s National Trade Corridors Fund provided a grant of $9.2 million for the project.The BFN’s lawsuit claims that ATL knew that the terminal’s construction would seriously disrupt more than 250 acres that historically protected the First Nation’s ancestral village site, which “held high and archeological and cultural value for BFN.
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