The Lac Seul First Nation of northern Ontario has won a key round in its long battle to be successfully compensated for the flooding of its lands precipitated by development of a dam.
The Lac Seul First Nation of northern Ontario has won a key round in its long battle to be successfully compensated for the flooding of its lands precipitated by development of a dam.
In an 8-1 ruling Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada jam aside a $30-million award and sent the topic advantage to the Federal Court for reassessment.
A hydroelectric dam to create energy to Winnipeg was in-built 1929 under an settlement between Canada, Ontario and Manitoba.
The mission enthusiastic raising the water level of Lac Seul by about three metres to keep a reservoir. It proceeded despite warnings about injury the flooding would jam off to the Lac Seul First Nation reserve, and without correct authorization or the consent of those affected.
Almost one-fifth of the very top land on the reserve was permanently flooded, destroying properties and wild rice fields and submerging gravesites.
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Supreme Court sides with Lac Seul First Nation over flooding compensation
